Agartala, Jan 6: The office of the Chief Electoral Office has informed that around 80,000 new voters were enrolled in the final electoral rolls of Tripura.
Talking to reporters,Chief Electoral officer (CEO) Kiran Gitte said, “Today (Thursday) the final voter list was published in all the polling stations. We have sent the copies to all district magistrates’ offices, Tehsil and Sub-divisional offices. We have also shared a copy with all the political parties. Before this summary revision, in Tripura, there were 27 lakh 33 thousand voters and now the number is 28 lakh 13 thousand voters.”
“In each and every polling station there are 845 voters. Where the voter numbers are high we will provide auxiliary polling stations,” the CEO said
He informed, “We have launched a special drive for Bru families and around 13,500 bru voters were enrolled in 12 locations. We have also set up polling stations for them so that they can cast votes in their areas. We have also marked the persons with disability so that they don’t face any problems during casting vote.”
He said that 3328 polling stations across the state are situated on the ground floor, having ramps, water facilities, and power connections.
He also informed that the number of third-gender voters significantly increased which was 46 and now 77.
This time the office of the CEO has also enrolled 13, 500 Bru voters in 12 locations.
The chief electoral officer said, “CAPF has already arrived on December 28 and whenever necessary we will bring more and will deploy them in vulnerable areas. Have taken all the steps to conduct the election free and fair”.
