Officials ready for Lilong & Wangjing-Tentha by-elections
Source: The Sangai Express
Thoubal, November 06 2020:
Altogether 828 polling personnel and 1,500 security personnel have been stationed at 92 polling stations of Lilong and Wangjing-Tentha for by-election duty.
Electors of the two ACs will exercise their franchise from 7 am to 5 pm, tomorrow.
Security measures have also been intensified at 9 sensitive polling stations to avoid untoward incident(s) .
The votes will be counted on November 10 .
Altogether 3 candidates namely Alhaj Abdul Nasir (independent), Y Antas Khan (independent) and Md Azizul Haque Khan (INC) are contesting for the Lilong Assembly seat while another three are contesting for the Wangjing-Tentha seat namely Paonam Brojen (BJP), Moirangthem Hemanta (INC) and Sarangthem Manaobi (independent) .
It is reported that at least one ASHA and Anganwadi worker will also be deployed at each polling station to supply facemask, hand gloves and hand sanitizer to the voters.