March 5: Taking note on Election Commission’s decision to prevent political parties from indulging into ‘non-implementable’ promises in their poll documents, the Delhi’s Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev said that they have formed a committee on Wednesday to keep eye on parties and their leaders making such false promises.
“If anyone, be it a political party or politician, found making any false election promises, they would be booked for violation of Model Code of Conduct,” Vijay Dev said.
The committee comprises of three members and they will interact with nodal poll officers. “They would be checking the manifestos of the political parties as well as try to attended rallies where these non-implementable promises can be announced,” said the officer.
After the Election Commission fixed the date of April 10 for voting in the city for parliamentary elections, the Delhi election commission has pulled up its socks to register maximum voters and make the elections successful.
Vijay Dev also said that till January this year 1, 28,424 new voters have enrolled in the electoral list after last year’s Assembly election. The last day for enrolment is on March 12.
“There are 66, 84,476 male voters and 53, 76,017 female voters including 638 others (eunuchs). We will launch an extensive media campaign to invite maximum applications for new enrolments,” said Dev adding that getting a voter card does not guarantee citizen to cast their vote till the time their names are not listed in electoral roll.
From March 9 the commission will launch a special programme at selected polling booth. The officials will be present there to collect forms from new voters and check the names of existing voters manually in the voters list. The list of such booths will be released before March 8.
For differently able voters, the poll panel has initiated a sensitisation programme of its employees. “We will ensure that every differently able person is being helped to cast the vote,” Dev added.
The commission will depute more than 85,000 civil officials and the same number of security personnel, including 35,000 Delhi police officials.
“We have launched our training programme for all of these officials. It is not an uphill task for us in such short notice period as most of the officials have recently conducted Assembly elections,” he added.
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“If anyone, be it a political party or politician, found making any false election promises, they would be booked for violation of Model Code of Conduct,” Vijay Dev said.
The committee comprises of three members and they will interact with nodal poll officers. “They would be checking the manifestos of the political parties as well as try to attended rallies where these non-implementable promises can be announced,” said the officer.
After the Election Commission fixed the date of April 10 for voting in the city for parliamentary elections, the Delhi election commission has pulled up its socks to register maximum voters and make the elections successful.
Vijay Dev also said that till January this year 1, 28,424 new voters have enrolled in the electoral list after last year’s Assembly election. The last day for enrolment is on March 12.
“There are 66, 84,476 male voters and 53, 76,017 female voters including 638 others (eunuchs). We will launch an extensive media campaign to invite maximum applications for new enrolments,” said Dev adding that getting a voter card does not guarantee citizen to cast their vote till the time their names are not listed in electoral roll.
From March 9 the commission will launch a special programme at selected polling booth. The officials will be present there to collect forms from new voters and check the names of existing voters manually in the voters list. The list of such booths will be released before March 8.
For differently able voters, the poll panel has initiated a sensitisation programme of its employees. “We will ensure that every differently able person is being helped to cast the vote,” Dev added.
The commission will depute more than 85,000 civil officials and the same number of security personnel, including 35,000 Delhi police officials.
“We have launched our training programme for all of these officials. It is not an uphill task for us in such short notice period as most of the officials have recently conducted Assembly elections,” he added.
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