26 officials suspended, around 1,700 voters boycott polling in East Tripura

The final turnout in the East Tripura parliamentary constituency reached its fag end on Friday night with a total voter turnout of 7966 per cent till the last report reported news agency ANIThe Lok Sabha elections 2024 were conducted in as many as 1664 polling stations across the East Tripura parliamentary constituency till 8 pm reported ANIAccording to the Chief Electoral Officer Puneet Agarwal the scrutiny of the EVMs will be conducted on Saturday which will eventually help the poll authorities to ascertain the final turnout which is expected to rise reported ANIOn being asked about the call for a poll boycott Agarwal told ANI In two polling stations people boycotted the elections in display of their grievances They were concerned about the decrepit condition of roads and the lack of development in their areas which is why they had boycotted the elections As soon as the election commission came to know about the grievances of the locals officials of the local areas tried to convince them but we also have to respect their decisionHe said that the polling happened peacefully in East Tripura and thanked voters who came to vote at the polling stationsThe polling happened peacefullyThe final turnout till 8 pm stood at 8032 per cent in the East Tripura parliamentary constituencyI want to thank all the voters who came to vote at the polling stationsThe elections were conducted in as many as 1664 polling stations across the East Tripura parliamentary constituency said Tripura Chief Electoral Officer reported ANISpeaking about the total number of voters who didnt cast their votes in those specific polling stations for Lok Sabha elections 2024 he said There are two polling stations registered as 413 Natonglal Para JB School and 445 Sandaimohan Para JB School The total number of eligible voters for those polling stations is recorded to be 649 and 1059 respectively In 413 two votes were polled while in the other only 12 votes turned up to exercise their franchiseOn the complaints redressal the senior poll official said A total of 92 complaints have been received and all of them are disposed of In this process 26 poll officials were suspended for violation of conduct rulesEarlier in the morning returning officer East Tripura Parliamentary Constituency Saju Vaheed said that all possible efforts have been put in place to ensure that voters can exercise their franchise Apart from that there are certain shadow areas for which wireless communication channels have been used for seamless connectivity reported ANIPolling is going very smoothly we are monitoring it from the control room and whatever issues that we had related to EVMs we have already resolved that In shadow areas we are using radio and wireless communications At 23 locations in shadow areas there were some issues related to roads and to those places the entire communication is being operated through Ham Radio and wireless communications he saidWith inputs from ANI