‘Happy with polls arrangement in GH’

TURA, APR 3: Expressing satisfaction over the meticulous and elaborate security arrangements in militancy ravaged Garo hills region, Meghalaya acting chief secretary PBO Warjri said that the that extra measures have been taken to ensure free and fair Lok Sabha election on April 9 in the of East and South Garo hills district.

Accompanied by Meghalaya Director General of Police Peter James Haneman , Warjri took a two-day tour across the five district of Garo hills to oversee poll preparedness.

Warjri said, “The district administration and police in Garo hills have ensured elaborate arrangement to ensure free and fair polling. We are convinced with their strategies, which have been prepared to maintain law and order”.

Warjri also lauded the efforts of the district administration in the newly created South West Garo Hills and North Garo Hills for their detailed and meticulous security plan for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

The two districts were created last year.

On the challenges being faced by the new districts, Warjri said, “Road infrastructure, communication and law & order situation with regard to insurgency are much better than other districts”. He also informed that extra measures have been taken to ensure free and fair polling in insurgency hit district of East and South Garo Hills.

At Ampati, the district headquarter of South West Garo Hills, Warjri asked the district officials not to be complacent. “If you are responsibility and commited, the district would have the smoothest and most successful election”.

Haneman also expressed satisfaction on the overall arrangement in all the five districts of Garo hills. “If everything is done according to the plan, there should be no security issues and the entire election process will be smooth.”

Two candidates are in fray for Tura parliamentary seat – Purno Agitok Sangma from National People’s Party  (NPP) and Daryl William Momin from Congress.

The constituency has a total electorate of 5,84,070, which includes 2,95,823 male and 2,88,247 female. There are a total of 929 polling stations in the five districts of Garo hills, which comprises Tura parliamentary seat.

A total of 240 booths have been identified as hyper sensitive and 121 as sensitive.- By Our Correspondent