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ECI reviews preparation for Lok Sabha polls 2024 in 8 Northeastern state, Bengal

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Guwahati, 22: An important meeting regarding preparedness for next year’s Lok Sabha election was held at Guwahati where senior election commission officials, chief electoral officers and police nodal officers of eight northeastern states and West Bengal participated.

The status of ongoing special summary revision (SSR) of electoral rolls were reviewed during the meeting.

The ECI team comprised senior deputy election commissioners Dharmendra Sharma and Nitesh Kumar Vyas, deputy election commissioner Hirdesh Kumar, Director General Neeta Verma and directors Pankaj Srivastava and Deepali Masirkar.

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Chief electoral officers and state police nodal officers of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Sikkim and West Bengal gave detailed presentations on the ongoing process of the SSR of the of electoral rolls and planning and preparations for next 18th Lok Sabha elections.

Tripura Chief Electoral Officer Puneet Agarwal said that in the day-long meeting in Guwahati on Monday, senior ECI officials heard the views of CEOs and police nodal officers of eight northeastern states and West Bengal.

Stressing on the optimum use of the various IT applications, the ECI officials asked the states’ police nodal officers to take time bound initiatives ahead of time and act upon on priority basis to ensure free, fair, transparent and safe polls.

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