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EC identifies 12 counting centres

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NEW DELHI NOV. 26. The Election Commission has identified a dozen centres, one less than in 1998, where counting of votes polled for the Delhi Assembly elections on December 1 would be taken up. According to the Chief Electoral Officer for Delhi, Arun Goyal, the counting will start at 8 a.m. on December 4 and results of all the 70 Assembly constituencies would be out by evening. Trends would be available after the first two rounds are completed within a few hours, he said.

All preparations for counting, including deployment of security forces, have been completed. Senior Election Commission of India officials along with Mr. Goyal have personally inspected all the counting centres. Counting of votes polled at Sarojini Nagar, Gole Market and Minto Road Assembly constituencies would be taken up at the Nagar Palika School Complex- I on Mandir Marg. All eyes would be on this centre as the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, is seeking re-election from Gole Market.

At the Jijabai Women Polytechnic Counting Centre near Siri Fort Auditorium, counting of votes polled for 11 seats would be taken up. They are: Kasturba Nagar, Jangpura, Okhla, Kalkaji, Malviya Nagar, Hauz Khas, Mehrauli, Saket, Dr. Ambedkar Nagar, Tughlakabad and Badarpur. The counting centre at Police Training College in Jharoda Kalan, would take up counting of votes for R. K. Puram, Delhi Cantonment, Najafgarh, Nasirpur, Palam, Mahipalpur and Rajinder Nagar Assembly seats.

Counting of votes polled in the constituencies of Trilokpuri, Patparganj, Mandawali and Shahdara would be undertaken at the Industrial Training Institute in Khichripur, while those of Geeta Colony, Gandhi Nagar, Krishna Nagar and Vishwas Nagar Assembly segments in East Delhi would be done at the Industrial Training Institute in Vivek Vihar.

The votes polled at Paharganj, Matia Mahal, Karol Bagh and Ram Nagar seats would be counted at the Veer Savarkar Basic Training Centre in the Pusa Institute Complex.

Those of Ballimaran, Chandni Chowk, Sadar Bazaar and Baljeet Nagar would be done at the Shaheed Amir Chand Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Ludlow Castle No. 2, while the counting centre in neighbouring Shaheed Avadh Bihari Sarvodaya Vidyalaya No. 1 at Ludlow Castle would take up counting of votes of two Assembly constituencies: Timarpur and Kamla Nagar.

Counting of votes for 11 Assembly constituencies would be undertaken at Arya Bhatt Polytechnic on G. T. Karnal Road in Ashok Vihar. They are: Janakpuri, Hari Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Rajouri Garden, Madipur, Sultanpur Majra, Nangloi Jat, Vishnu Garden, Hastsal, Moti Nagar and Patel Nagar. While the Bharatiya Janata Party's chief ministerial candidate, Madan Lal Khurana, is contesting from Moti Nagar, the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Jagdish Mukhi, from Janakpuri, and the Delhi Power Minister, Ajay Maken, from Rajouri Garden.

For 12 Assembly seats in the North-West District, the Election Commission has identified two counting centres. Votes polled for the Trinagar, Shakurbasti, Shalimar Bagh, Bawana, Mangolpuri and Bhalswa Jahangirpuri constituencies would be counted at Guru Nanak Dev Co-Ed. Polytechnic at Sector 15 in Rohini, while those for Badli, Narela, Shahabad Daulatpur, Wazirpur, Adarsh Nagar and Model Town would be done at 2, Kasturba Polytechnic for Women on Muni Maya Ram Marg near Pitampura television tower.

Votes in the eight Assembly seats in North-East District would be counted at the Industrial Training Institute in Nand Nagri. They are: Seemapuri, Nand Nagri, Rohtas Nagar, Babarpur, Seelampur, Ghonda, Yamuna Vihar and Qarawal Nagar.

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