KOHIMA: All preparations have been made for the sleek conduct of elections to the lone Lok Sabha in Nagaland the place over 13.25 lakh voters on Friday will resolve the destiny of three candidates within the fray. Congress nominee S Supongmeren Jamir, Nationalist Democratic Progressive Get together (NDPP) and Folks’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) candidate Chumben Murry and Impartial Hayithung Tungoe Lotha are contesting the elections.
BJP President J P Nadda, Nagaland Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, Deputy Chief Ministers T R Zeliang and Y Patton addressed a number of rallies in help of their candidate. Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh and Randeep Singh Surjewala together with different AICC leaders have campaigned for Congress candidate Jamir.
Polling will begin at 7 am and can finish at four pm, an official stated.
A complete of 13,25,383 electorates will likely be eligible to train their franchise, together with greater than 19,999 first-time voters, 22,140 senior residents above 85 years and 6,707 individuals with disabilities, the official stated. Nagaland has extra feminine electors at 6,64,460 voters as in opposition to 6,60,923 male voters, he stated.
Altogether 180 polling events for the two,342 polling stations have left for his or her polling cubicles, officers stated. Of the full 2,342 polling cubicles, 588 polling stations have been marked as vital and susceptible, they stated. There are 506 all-women polling stations whereas 4 cubicles will likely be managed by individuals with disabilities.
An official stated 1,097 polling stations may have webcasting facility and 82 will likely be beneath offline videography. Apart from 48 firms of CAPF, one other 50 firms of the state police, Indian Reserve Battalions, Particular Activity Pressure and 600 Residence Guards personnel and Village guards will likely be deployed throughout the polling train, a senior police officer stated.
Officers stated that whereas the Jap Nagaland Peoples’ Organisation (ENPO) has declared abstention from voting, polling events have been dispatched for the 738 polling stations within the six districts – Mon, Tuensang, Longleng, Kiphire, Shamator and Noklak – of the realm. Within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, NDPP’s Tokheho Yepthomi had defeated Congress candidate Ok L Chishi by 13,000 votes.
