Arunachal ready for Lok Sabha, Assembly polls with women-centric polling booths

Arunachal Pradesh is set to vote on Friday for the first phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha and Assembly elections with the Election Commission setting up dedicated womencentric polling stations in various constituenciesVoting will notably take place in the northeastern state to elect two Lok Sabha MPs and 50 MLAs There are 133 candidates in the fray for the assembly constituencies and 14 for Lok Sabha seatsTo ensure the safety of women womencentric polling stations have been established We have set up 100200 pink polling stations and good arrangements have been made in those polling stations My message to all women would be that everyone has the right to vote so women should be able to vote without any influence Chemy Doker Presiding Officer of the Shyaro polling station under the Mukto Assembly constituency saidThere are 77 polling stations in the district hence 77 teams One team going to Luguthang has already been dispatched By evening all teams will have reached their booths Polling will commence at 7 am and continue until 5 pm she addedTashi Chhota another presiding officer of 214 Tawang Higher Secondary School said Our polling station is hardly 1km from here so after we reach we will inspect all the preparations Polling will start at 7 am tomorrow Our team consists of 8 people including polling staff and security personnel and we will stay there overnight We have around 670 voters at our polling stationThe Election Commission of India ECI has deployed allwomenled teams comprising the District Collector Superintendent of Police and Assistant Returning Officer ARO along with all polling parties including security personnel in the Lower Dibang Valley district of the stateVisuals from the Upper Siang Valley district in Arunachal Pradesh on Thursday showed security personnel being deployed Given the mountainous terrain of Arunachal Pradesh polling teams traverse difficult terrain to reach their respective polling boothsPolling teams could be seen reaching their respective polling booths in the East Kameng district on Thursday Another depicted polling team was seen navigating the stunning hanging bridge of Lower HeyoArunachal Pradesh has two parliamentary constituencies Arunachal East and Arunachal WestIn 2019 the BJP won both Lok Sabha seats While in the assembly the BJP emerged victorious with 41 seats The JD U won seven seats the NPP won five and Congress won four seats The PPA won one seat and independent candidates won two seatsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever