Telangana Elections: Voters down by 2 Lakh Than 2014, Says CECTop Stories

November 24, 2018 12:36
Telangana Elections: Voters down by 2 Lakh Than 2014, Says CEC

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As Telangana assembly elections is imminent, the political aura is getting intense and concurrently it has found that a number of voters eligible for exercising their franchise has come down by two lakh compared to the prior assembly elections held in 2014.

The voters' count was announced by Chief Election Commissioner O P Rawat at a press conference on Friday. Rawat, along with other officials of the Election Commission, reviewed the poll readiness in the state in the last two days.

In this election, as many as 2.80 crore voters could exercise their franchise, compared to 2.82 crores in 2014, as per the final electoral rolls prepared by the Telangana EC authorities, he said.

Of 2.80 crore voters, approximately 1.41 crore (50.35 percent) are men and the remaining 1.39 crore were women. The electorate also includes 10,038 service voters. "A marginal 2,885 voters belonging to the third gender have also registered as voters," he said.

Rawat said the EC had taken note of the concerns and suggestions of various political parties and assured that an effective mechanism would be put in place to ensure smooth conduct of entire poll process in a free, fair, and inclusive manner.

He said the EC would ensure strict compliance of model code of conduct and impartial action would be taken on every complaint received in this regard.

The Election Commission has launched the cVIGIL app, in order to keep a detailed watch on the breach of the model code and other violation in the assembly elections, which will be effective from the date of notification. Through this app, any citizen will be able to file complaints regarding the election code of conduct and it will be solved in a time-bound manner.

Rawat as well assured of effective action on paid news cases.

The EC has directed that as per present instructions, channels owned by political parties and candidates must also be subjected to this mechanism.

-Sowmya Sangam

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