Voting continues on all five seats of Uttarakhand, 55 candidates in the fray, voting will continue till 5 pm
Today 83,37,914 voters are deciding the fate of 55 candidates in the five Lok Sabha seats of Uttarakhand. The Commission has set a target of increasing the voting to 75 percent.
In 2019, there was 61.50 percent voting. After voting on all five seats, counting of votes will take place on June 4. The Election Commission has appealed to the people of the state to vote as much as possible. Chief Electoral Officer Dr. BVRC Purushottam said, voting will be held from 7 am to 5 pm. Before the start of voting, there will be a mock poll in the presence of polling agents of all the candidates.
All voters who enter their polling place by 5 pm will be able to vote. Apart from Voter ID, you will also be able to use 12 other documents to cast your vote. Additional Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Kumar Jogdande said, by evening 9,500 polling parties had reached their polling places. She will provide information about the commencement of voting.
No ban on marriage functions, hospitals will remain open
Additional Chief Electoral Officer said, the Transport Department will continue to operate the traffic system smoothly. Arrangements will be made to ensure that there is no inconvenience to any common citizen in traffic. There will also be no ban on vehicles used in marriage functions. Instructions have been given to all government hospitals, district hospitals, primary and CHCs to operate 24 hours. The departments related to essential services like drinking water, electricity, disaster management and public works will also continue to operate all the arrangements 24 hours, so that the voters and polling parties do not face any inconvenience.
1,365 critical and 809 unsafe polling booths in the state
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Jogdande said, 1,365 critical polling booths and 809 vulnerable polling booths have been identified in the state. Security arrangements have been made at critical booths, while vulnerable booths are those where some violent incident may have taken place in the last elections. There will be adequate force arrangements at these polling stations. Intensive checking is done by all flying squads and statistics surveillance teams 48 hours before voting. In view of this, 293 flying squads and 252 statistics surveillance teams will remain on alert mode in the state.
Seizure of Rs 16.41 crore
Since the code of conduct came into effect, seizures worth Rs 16 crore 41 lakh have been made so far. The police department has seized the maximum amount worth Rs 8 crore 94 lakh, the Income Tax Department has seized Rs 6 crore 14 lakh and the Excise Department has seized Rs 91 lakh. Rs 5 crore 90 lakh has been seized in the form of cash, liquor worth Rs 3 crore 6 lakh has been seized, Rs 4 crore 3 lakh has been seized in narcotics related cases.
Total voters of Lok Sabha elections
- Total voters-83,37,914
- Women voters-40,20,038
- Male voters-43,17,579
- Transgender voters-297
- Service voters-93,187
- First time voter-1,48,090
- Voters above 85 years of age – 65,160
- Disabled voters-80,335
- Total polling stations-11,723
- Total voters of Tehri Lok Sabha-15,77,664
- Total voters of Garhwal Lok Sabha-13,69,388
- Total voters of Almora Lok Sabha-13,39,327
- Total voters of Nainital Lok Sabha-20,15,809
- Total voters of Haridwar Lok Sabha-20,35,726
- No restrictions on vehicle movement
Movement of private vehicles will also continue during the elections. Private vehicles coming from other states will have to undergo checking. There are no other restrictions.
The weather will also cooperate
The weather will also cooperate during voting. While there may be light drizzle at some places in the hilly areas, the weather will remain clear in the plains. At present the Meteorological Department has ruled out heat wave. Therefore, the Election Commission is hopeful of good turnout.
So many employees engaged in election duty
More than 55 thousand employees have been deployed for polling parties. 11,729 polling parties have reached their destination. 65 companies of CAPFs have been deployed for security. 20 companies have been appointed as Uttarakhand PAC. 15 thousand soldiers will be ready for home guard.
Know this also regarding voting
Any voter who enters the polling station at 5 pm will have the right to cast his vote. After five o’clock, no voter from outside will be able to enter the polling place to vote inside.
Webcasting will take place at 5,892 booths. Election Commission and ROs of all the districts will also be able to watch the voting process live.
During voting, monitoring will also be done through drones at many centres. The footage and information of the drone will be given to the control room in due time. Action will be taken accordingly.
Voting trends will be known every two hours across the state. This time the Election Commission has implemented the PDMS system.
