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Preparations on to ensure peaceful polls in Mysore

By Our Staff Correspondent

MYSORE, APRIL 25. The stage is set for the simultaneous elections to the Legislative Assembly and the Lok Sabha to be held in Mysore district on Monday. Polling will be held from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and people will have to cast their votes using the electronic voting machines (EVMs).

The district administration has made arrangements for the smooth conduct of the elections. In view of the simultaneous elections to the Legislative Assembly and the Lok Sabha, the authorities, under instructions from the Election Commission, have provided each polling booth with two EVMs. The ballot paper pasted on the EVM for the Assembly polls will be pink in colour while that pasted on the EVM for Lok Sabha polls will be white. Two separate cabins will be erected for the machines. The polling personnel manning the booth have been instructed to help the voters distinguish between the EVM meant for the Assembly polls and that meant for the Lok Sabha polls. A total of 3,115 EVMs will be used in the 1,487 polling booths to be set up in the Mysore Lok Sabha Constituency. Mysore district comprises 11 Assembly constituencies of which eight come under the Mysore Lok Sabha Constituency. Bannur, T. Narsipur, and Nanjangud Assembly segments fall under the Chamarajanagar Lok Sabha Constituency.

About 12,000 personnel will be deputed on election duty in the Mysore Lok Sabha Constituency at the rate of one Presiding Officer and five polling officials for each booth. Two polling officials of the six posted in each booth will be from outside the district while four will be from outside the Assembly constituency, according to an official.

Security

With a view to ensure peaceful polling, over 3,000 police personnel will be deployed in the Mysore Lok Sabha Constituency. Of the 1,478 polling booths in the Mysore Lok Sabha segment, 523 booths have been identified as sensitive and 509 as hypersensitive.

There are 582 polling booths in the four Assembly constituencies coming under the limits of the Mysore City Police. Of them, 195 have been categorised as sensitive and 263 as hypersensitive.

One head constable and two constables will be posted at each of hypersensitive booths while one head constable and one constable will deployed at each of the sensitive booths. The remaining booths will have one police constable.

There are 14,73,037 voters in the Mysore Lok Sabha Constituency: 7,47,670 men and 7,25,367 women.

Chamarajanagar

The Additional Superintendent of Police, K.T. Balakrishna, said here on Saturday that arrangements had been made for peaceful conduct of elections in Chamarajanagar district on Monday. He told presspersons that of the 777 polling booths in the district, 303 had been identified as hypersensitive and 251 as sensitive.

He said patrol teams would be deployed and each team would look after three to 30 booths. Besides, 355 Home Guards, four battalions of the Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP), and eight District Armed Force (DAR) teams would be deployed.

He said that 206 villages would come under the Special Task Force operational areas.

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