LS Polls 2019: All-Women polling booths for Delhi

In a first for Delhi, the Election Commission is planning to set up booths with only women staffers to send across a message of women's empowerment.

New Delhi: In order to send across a message of women empowerment in the forthcoming general elections, the poll body in New Delhi is planning to set up several polling booths that will be solely staffed by women.

Talking to ETV Bharat, Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Ranbir Singh said that the areas are being identified in the national capital for this purpose.

"Some of the polling stations will be manned completely by women. The purpose of this exercise to showcase their abilities and engender a sense of woman empowerment," he said.

New Delhi will have 13,816 polling stations at around 2700 locations along with a model polling station in each assembly segment. The number of stations to be manned fully by women is not yet known.

The general elections is set to commence on April 11 and will be held in seven phases till May 19, with Delhi going to polls on May 12. Delhi has seven Lok Sabha seats and 70 assembly constituencies.