Thoubal District Polling Personnel Reach Stations, Voting to begin at 8 am tomorrow

Thoubal, Oct.6: Polling personnel of Thoubal District detailed for duty of the 5th General Panchayat Election have reached their respective polling stations.
Deputy Commissioner, Thoubal L.Nabakishwor has appealed to all the voters to exercise their right to adult franchise ethically without any sense of fear.
Adequate security measures have been taken up in and around all the 310 polling stations in Thoubal District where polling would be held from 8 am to 4 pm tomorrow.
The election will be conducted at two block Lilong Block and Thoubal Block. The official source said that at Lilong block a total of 17155 male voters and 18,496 female voters will exercise their franchise. For Thoubal block the total voter is 129444 of which 45421 are female voters and 48372 are male voters.
At Thoubal block a total of 23 Zilla Parishad candidates, 56 Pradhan Candidates and 346 member candidates are in the fray. For Lilong Block 10 Zilla Parishad Candidates, 23 Pradhan candidates and 178 members candidates are in the fray.
Voting will be conducted at 310 Polling Station for the district. Out of this 101 are declared hyper sensitive, 144 are declared sensitive and 65 are normal. A total of 1860 polling personnel will be utilised. 6 each at each polling station.
Its said that all preparation for strong room and counting has been completed.
On the other hand police are apprehensive of outlawed organisation interfering the poll. Police Source said that security measures has been beefed up following information about the possible intervention by outlawed
It’s said for each polling station 10 police personnel including two unarmed women police, 2 unarmed male police and 6 armed police will be deployed.
Meanwhile, a control room has been opened in the office of the state election Commission at DC Imphal West office complex. Lamphelpat. Said a release All communicatlon related to the 5th general Panchayat election may be made at the control room telephone numbers 0385 2414983 and 0385 2414984, it’s said.