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NEW DELHI: The passenger manifests of a few airways may have a ‘Mr Poll Field’ at the rolls. It is a real poll field, now not a unusual traveller with a unusual title!
The Election Fee has booked a ‘Mr Poll Field’ in flights on Tuesday and Wednesday to ship the vote container to other states for the July 18 presidential polls.
In keeping with the Election Fee, a separate air price tag is booked within the title of ‘Mr Poll Field’ because it travels at the entrance row of the plane. Seated beside ‘Mr Poll Field’ are the assistant returning officials (ARO). The field travels underneath the non-public supervision of the officer.
“The presidential elections contain an enchanting adventure of the poll field to states/union territories and go back after polling,” stated the ballot panel.
In keeping with officers, the Fee had were given a distinct permission from the civil aviation division in 1969 to allow the poll containers and different election fabrics to go back and forth as passengers.
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After air go back and forth, ‘Mr Poll Field’ will probably be saved in prior to now sanitised and correctly sealed robust rooms underneath strict videography in each and every state and union territory.
As soon as the ballot is over, the sealed ‘Mr Poll Field’ and different election subject matter will probably be transported again to the Workplace of Returning Officer Rajya Sabha Secretariat via the following to be had flight.
The containers and different paperwork are carried for my part within the plane cabins — by no means out of sight of accompanying officials — the Fee added.
Once they achieve Delhi, officers also are assisted on the helpdesk on the Delhi Airport, manned via the officers of the Election Fee of India, Civil Aviation, Delhi Police, and CISF.
The counting of votes will happen on July 21, forward of the top of President Ram Nath Kovind’s time period on July 24. MPs will solid their ballots within the parliament area.
The Bharatiya Janata Birthday party-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance’s presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu is the frontrunner. She’s going to tackle former BJP stalwart Yashwant Sinha, the joint opposition presidential candidate.
Because the race to elect the sixteenth President of India selections up tempo, the Leader Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar and Election Commissioner Arun Chandra Pandey held a assessment assembly on Tuesday with the Returning Officer PC Mody on poll-preparedness for the approaching presidential elections. AROs and CEOs of all states and UTs have been additionally provide nearly.
Whilst supervising the distribution and dispatch of ‘Mr Poll Field’ and different poll-related fabrics, Kumar emphasized the will for info, polling and go back of the fabric to be meticulously controlled.
He additionally reiterated that ROs and AROs adhere to the best degree of compliance for all statutory processes and directions for a loose and truthful election.