District Election Officer Bishnupur calls for peaceful poll campaigns
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR

Bishnupur, December 22 2021: The District Election Officer Bishnupur, Ranjan Yumnam on Wednesday called upon political parties and intending candidates from the district for a peaceful poll campaign in the upcoming State Assembly Election.

Ranjan Yumnam made the appeal while chairing an election preparedness review meeting at the Conference Hall of Bishnupur DC Complex attended by ROs, Nodal Officers and representatives from political parties of the district.

The DEO also urged all concerned to provide their full cooperation for a free and fair conduct of election.

Highlighting law & order situation and security arrangements in the meeting, Bishnupur SP, N Herojit Singh expressed confidence for a smooth conduct of election from a security point of view.

District Election Officer Bishnupur calls for peaceful poll campaigns

Sufficient security personnel including CAPF will be deployed in the district for maintaining law and order in the upcoming election, he informed.

Stating that arms deposited in the district currently stands at 64%, Herojit reminded licensed gun owners to deposit firearms at the nearest police station.

Discouraging applications for arms exemption, the SP maintained that life threat from someone is not sufficient ground for arms exemption but a criterion for license application.

Responding to an apprehension from one of the political party representatives on undue influence of Central Armed Police Forces deployed for election duty, Herojit assured political party representatives that stringent mechanisms will be enforced to prevent CAPF from being influenced by locals through force or otherwise.

Replying to another query on deployment of adequate security arrangements for critical polling stations, he assured political party representatives that necessary measures will be adopted based on the vulnerability mapping by the District Election Office.

During the meeting, shifting of several polling stations in dilapidated conditions to better equipped locations, expenditure monitoring, media monitoring and Covid contingency plans among others were also discussed.

H Bobby Sharma, AC to DC and Ejaj Hassan, AC to DC also attended the review meeting.