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Bihar Election: In the presence of women polling officers or attendants at the booths, special arrangements will be made for their identification and their confidentiality will also be ensured.
Bihar Election: The Election Commission said on Friday that special arrangements will be made at polling stations in Bihar to identify women voters wearing burqa or purdah. In a statement, the Election Commission said that as per its instructions to encourage the participation of women wearing burqa or purdah, special arrangements will be made in the presence of women polling officers or attendants at polling stations to identify them, while also ensuring their confidentiality. Addressing a press conference here on Monday to announce the schedule of Bihar elections, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar had said that Anganwadi workers will be present at all polling stations in Bihar to help verify the identity of burqa-clad voters.
Privacy will not be revealed
Responding to a question about women wearing ‘ghunghat’ and burqa during a press conference, Kumar said the Election Commission has clear guidelines regarding identity verification inside polling stations and it will be strictly followed. He said that our Anganwadi workers will be deployed at all polling stations to verify the identity of women wearing burqa. The Commission’s guidelines are very clear on how identity is verified inside the polling booth and will be strictly followed. On Thursday, the election authority had said that 90,712 Anganwadi workers would be deployed on election duty. Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal had last Saturday urged the commission to ensure that voting is held in two phases on November 6 and 11.
Every candidate should provide polling agent
Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said that the candidates standing must provide polling agents. Ask to see the mock poll in front of your eyes. At the end of voting, polling agents should also take Form 17C. For those people who have not fixed any house number by the Municipal Corporation, there is a possibility of numbers of several people in the same house being registered in the voter list. Because, blo do this to mark something. Revision is done every time before the elections, hence the demand to conduct it after the elections makes no sense. Full opportunity was given for claims and objections in the SIR of Bihar. Said that all political parties had given their booth level agents to oversee this process. There is still time in the SIR that any person or political party feels that an eligible voter has been left out or the name of an ineligible voter is in the list, then he can make a claim or objection. Their claims and objections will be settled at the ERO level.
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