After 10 yrs, Chitrakonda goes to polls right now
By Express News Service
MALKANGIRI: Thursday might be a historic day for residents of Chitrakonda block within the erstwhile cut-off area of Swabhiman Anchal. After 10 lengthy years of wait, they are going to lastly get to take part within the voting course of and select their representatives.
Chitrakonda, a purple dot in Odisha’s Maoist counter-insurgency map not way back, will go to polls within the last section of the three-tier panchayat elections.
An upbeat Malkangiri administration has put in place heavy safety preparations to make sure that the elections are incident-free. Since the individuals of Chitrakonda might be exercising their voting rights after almost a decade, heavy deployment of safety forces together with SOG, DVF and BSF has been made for the graceful conduct of polls. The district administration will even use drone-fitted cameras to maintain a detailed watch on the polling course of.
On Wednesday, voters of Maoist-infested areas had been ferried by boats to their respective cubicles by the administration. As many as 54 cubicles have been relocated in view of the Maoist risk. The administration additionally organized a particular launch to ship 15 polling events to a few panchayats. While 11 polling events had been despatched to the Maoist den of Jantri panchayat, three had been despatched to Andrapalli and one to Jodamba.
Official sources stated after reaching Ghanabeda, the polling events will spend the night time on the native BSF camp and depart for his or her respective cubicles within the morning. Malkangiri SP Nitesh Wadhwani has requested media personnel to not enterprise past the police camp at Jantapai for safety causes.
Elections might be held in 18 panchayats and two zilla parishad (ZP) zones underneath Chitrakonda. A complete of 41,582 voters will train their franchise in 222 cubicles of which 81 are delicate and 60 hypersensitive. A complete of 342 candidates are contesting the polls in Chitrakonda together with seven for 2 ZP zones, 59 sarpanch, and 41 samiti member posts.
