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Arrangements in place for counting in Bidar

By Our Staff Correspondent

BIDAR, MAY 11. Administrative and security arrangements have been completed here for the counting of votes of the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections scheduled for Thursday.

The Deputy Commissioner, T.K. Anil Kumar, who is the Returning Officer, told presspersons here on Monday that the counting process would begin at 8 a.m. that day in 1,428 booths in 24 to 30 rounds. There would be 14 counting tables. The personnel included 224 counting staff and 160 assistants.

He said the process involved opening the seal of the electronic voting machines, counting the votes and resealing the machines. The counting of votes polled in the Basavkalyan, Hulsoor, Aland and Kamalapur segments would be held at the Government polytechnic, and those in Aurad, Bidar and Bhalki would be counted at BVB College. The votes of the Humnabad segment would be counted in Basaveshwar B.Ed. College on BVB College campus.

The Superintendent of Police, Amrit Pal, said three deputy superintendents of police, 15 circle inspectors, 32 sub-inspectors, 55 assistant sub-inspectors, 145 head constables, 524 constables, 32 women constables and 200 home guards would be posted at the counting centres. Three Karnataka State Reserve Police (KSRP) platoons and four District Armed Reserve (DAR) teams had been deployed in the city. A team each of the DAR had been deployed in Humnabad, Aurad and Bhalki taluks. He said only the polling agents, the counting agents and the candidates, who had been issued passes by the Returning Officer, would be allowed to enter the counting centres. Metal detectors would be fixed at every entry point of the centres. Bags, mobile phones, inflammable articles, matchboxes, knives and weapons would not be allowed in the centres. Armed pickets would be posted at 23 sensitive points identified in the city. Patrolling would be taken up near the houses of 20 political leaders in the district. Four mobile squads would be patrolling the city and its outskirts.

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