Telangana Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj addressing the media in Hyderabad on Friday.
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Chief Electoral Officer Vikas Raj has refuted attributions that the spurt in polling proportion after 5 p.m. throughout Assembly elections on November 30 was because of heavy bogus voting.
Addressing a media convention on Friday, Mr. Vikas Raj clarified that in a number of polling stations, voting continued as much as 9.30 p.m., resulting in spurt in polling proportion.
In 13 constituencies impacted by left wing extremism, polling was wrapped up by four p.m., and within the remaining continued as much as 5 p.m. Those who arrived at the polling station by 5 p.m. have been allowed to train their franchise because of which polling prolonged as much as 9.30 p.m., he defined in response to a query.
After the polling events arrived at the reception centres, preliminary scrutiny was completed by the Returning Officers, earlier than sending the EVMs to the robust rooms.
As per the up to date determine at 7.30 p.m. on Friday, the polling proportion for Telangana was 71.34% and that of Hyderabad, 47.88%.
Mr. Vikas Raj additional mentioned the scuffle between the Andhra Pradesh and the Telangana governments for management of Nagarjunasagar Dam had nothing to do with elections.
A file variety of 13,000 circumstances have been filed with regard to enforcement of Model Code of Conduct this elections, he mentioned. There has been marked improve within the postal poll, with 16,005 senior residents above 80 and 9,459 individuals with disabilities utilizing it, aside from 1.eight lakh authorities workers.
Answering a query on complaints about rigging in Chandrayangutta and different constituencies, Mr. Raj mentioned observers and returning officers are watching the webcasting and CCTV digicam footages of the polling stations involved.
Barring a number of exceptions, the polling had been largely uneventful, he mentioned. The highest polled constituency was Munugode, with 91.89% whereas the Yakutpura was the bottom polled at 39.64%. Special focus this elections was on establishing polling stations in habitations of Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups. As a consequence, seven polling stations had lower than 50 voters, and 4 of them had lower than 25 voters. A polling station in Devarkadra had the bottom variety of eight voters.
He mentioned the robust rooms might be monitored constantly by means of 40 corporations of Central forces, and CCTV cameras. Three layers of safety is offered at the robust rooms respectively by Central forces, State armed reserve forces and the State police.
Speaking of the preparations for the counting day on December 3, Mr. Raj mentioned there might be a complete 33 counting centres throughout the State. A complete 1,766 counting tables are being arrange, aside from 131 tables for ROs and postal ballots.
Two units of 14 tables every might be arrange for counting the votes of six constituencies with greater than 500 polling stations, whereas all different constituencies can have a set of 14 tables every.
As there are massive variety of contestants in lots of constituencies, counting might take extra time, he mentioned. Votes of every candidate might be tabulated in each spherical of counting, with postal poll taking priority over EVMs. Each desk can have one micro observer, one counting supervisor and two assistants.