Agartala, April 25: Polling officials and security personnel from various dispatch centres left for the respective polling station with EVM and polling materials on Thursday. A total of 13,96,761 electors including 7,02,511 males, 6,94,237 females and 13 voters from the third gender are scheduled to cast votes at 1664 polling centres in the East Tripura seat on April 26.

Initiatives have been taken to ensure the Mizoram Bru voters who have been permanently settled in Tripura could cast their mandate for the parliament poll here. 37 thousand Bru migrants from Mizoram, who had been languishing in transit camps in Tripura since 1997, are being permanently settled in the state as per a quadripartite agreement signed between the central government, state governments of Tripura, Mizoram.

The Election Commission of India has taken special initiative to give relief to the voters in the heat wave here and security has been tightened along the Indo-Bangla international border and strict vigil has been kept in all the naka points to avoid any untoward incident.

The preparations at East Tripura Parliamentary constituency comes in amidst of allegations from the opposition INDIA alliance against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of perpetrating extensive violence, hooliganism, physical assaults, obstructing voters from turning up at polling centers to cast their mandate and denying opposition polling agents entry into polling centres on April 19.

The INDIA alliance demanded to scuttle the entire poll process and re-conduct the elections at West Tripura Parliamentary constituency as well as Ramnagar assembly seat.

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