North East Assembly polls: EC appoints 6 categories of observers to monitor poll process

Election The commission has appointed six categories of observers in three poll-bound states – Tipura, Meghalaya, Nagaland – to closely monitor the election process and related aspects.

Election officials said on Friday that six types of observers have been appointed from among serving and retired IAS, IPS, IRS and other officers of the central government to conduct fair, impartial, fearless and inducement-free elections.

These are general observers, police observers, expenditure observers, micro observers in each polling station, special observers for special circumstances and counting observers.

The commission on Friday appointed three special observers and asked them to visit Tripura immediately to take stock of the situation, ensure proper deployment of Central Armed Police Forces, intensify enforcement measures and report back to the commission. The three special observers are Yogendra Tripathi, retired IAS officer of Karnataka cadre, Vivek Johri, former Director General of Police, Madhya Pradesh and B Murali Kumar, IRS officer, who was a special observer in Gujarat (2022) and West Bengal assembly elections. (2021).

Meanwhile, the Election Commission will formally issue the notification for the February 16 polls in Tripura on Saturday and the filing of nomination papers will begin immediately. In Tripura, the last date for filing nominations is January 30 and the scrutiny of nomination papers will be done the next day and the last date for withdrawal of candidature will be February 2.

Elections to the 60-member Legislative Assemblies of Meghalaya and Nagaland will be held on February 27. The counting of votes in all the three states will take place on March 2.

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