Delhi’s top cop reviews security to ensure peaceful polling
rora was accompanied by senior police officials who took stock of the situation in a bid to ensure there was no untoward incident while voting was underway.
rora was accompanied by senior police officials who took stock of the situation in a bid to ensure there was no untoward incident while voting was underway.
According to the poll body, West Bengal recorded the highest voter turnout (77.99 per cent) followed by Jharkhand (61.41 per cent), Uttar Pradesh (52.02 per cent), Odisha (59.60 per cent), Jammu and Kashmir (51.35 per cent), Bihar (52.24 per cent), Haryana (55.93 per cent), and Delhi (53.73 per cent).
District Election Officer, Poonch, Yasin M Choudhary and Senior Superintendent of Police Youghal Manhas flagged off poll parties to Hillkaka and various other polling stations of the district.
Elaborate security is in place with around 2 lakh security personnel, including over 230 companies of Central forces, deployed on election duty for this phase.
On the last day of campaigning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Haryana’s Bhiwani, Defence minister Rajnath Singh in Delhi’s Dwarka, and Union minister Piyush Goyal held a road show in Najafgarh area of the national capital in support of BJP candidates.
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