The Civil & Police Administration have fully geared up to ensure transparent and peaceful conduct of by-poll for Lok Sabha constituency with total 16,18,512 voters including 84,32,99 male and 77,51,73 female and 40 third gender voters. The polling would be held on May 10, 2023 with counting on May 13.
The Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency has 32668 voters above 80 years of age besides 444 above 100 years of age. As many as 23649 voters are in the age group between 18 and 19 years whereas 10526 Divyang, 73 NRI and 1852 service voters in the constituency.
Interacting with the media persons here, the District Election Officer-cum-Deputy Commissioner Jaspreet Singh and Commissioner of Police Kuldeep Singh Chahal briefed them about the arrangements and preparedness being put in place for smooth conduct of by-poll as the Model Code of Conduct has come to force from March 29 in the entire district, which would remain in process till completion of elections.
Jaspreet Singh stated that there were total 1972 polling stations in Jalandhar Lok Sabha Constituency with 738 urban and 1234 rural polling stations. He said that complete web casting would be ensured at all polling stations while there are 44 model polling stations to be setup besides one exclusive polling station for women in each Assembly Constituency. A special polling station will be operated and managed by the Divyangs at local Pingalwara, he added.
The District Election Officer also informed that as many as 184 supervisors and 1972 Booth Level Officers would be deputed for smooth and flawless polling. He also pointed out that youngsters attaining age of 18 years, or those who were left out earlier in enrolling themselves, could get their votes made by April 20, 2023. Besides, all political parties, bankers and printers/publications have already been apprised about the model code of conduct as per the instructions of Election Commission of India. He said that nine flying squads in each assembly constituency had been deputed keep a close check on unauthorized activities.
Giving details about the nomination process, Jaspreet Singh said that the filing of nominations would start from April 13 as well as the start of work by the monitoring teams. The nominations will continue till April 20, scrutiny will be held on April 21 and the papers could be withdrawn by April 24. The Election Commission has fixed Rs. 95 lakh as poll expenditure limit for each candidate. The C-vigil cell with 1950 helpline besides a complaint cell has also been setup.
The Deputy Commissioner also mentioned that the orders under 144 CrPc had also been issued to get the licensed arms deposited at nearest police station or arms dealers. Assembly Consituency Nakodar is the largest segment with polling station while Phillaur is the largest assembly segment with maximum number of electorates i.e. 199176 and Adampur is the smallest segment as per number of electorates i.e. 164707.
Answering a query, Commissioner of Police Kuldeep Singh Chahal said that Police administration had already made elaborate arrangements with sufficient number of police officials for peaceful polls. He said that interstate nakas had been working actively and numbers of these nakas would be increased in days to come. Chahal said that foolproof security arrangements would be ensured especially at sensitive and critical polling booths.
AROs for Assembly Constituencies: SDM Amanpal Singh will be the Assistant Returning Officer for Phillaur Assembly segment while SDM Kanwaljit Singh to be the ARO of Nakodar, SDM Rishabh Bansal for Shahkot, SDM-II Balbir Raj Singh for Kartarpur, Estate Officer, JDA Amanpreet Singh for Jalandhar West, SDM-I Vikas Hira for Jalandhar Central, Additional Chief Administrator JDA Darbara Singh Randhawa for Jalandhar North, Secretary RTA Baljinder Singh Dhillon for Jalandhar Cantt and Joint Commissioner MC, Jalandhar Puneet Sharma for Adampur.