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Security beefed up in Haryana, Maha ahead of vote counting

Security has been beefed up in the states of Haryana and Maharashtra ahead of the counting of votes for the recently concluded assembly election in both the states.

Police personnel guard the strong room where the EVM machines are stored following Maharashtra Assembly elections, at a college in Mumbai. (PTI Photo)
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Published : Oct 23, 2019, 9:40 PM IST

Hyderabad: In the backdrop of counting of votes for the just concluded Haryana and Maharashtra assembly election beginning Thursday morning, heavy security has been deployed in and around strong rooms in both the states.

Along with state police, 25,000 security personnel have been deployed across Maharashtra to ensure that counting passes off smoothly. Counting of votes would begin at 8 am and be held at 269 different locations across Maharashtra. The Election Commission would also record a video of the entire counting process.

Meanwhile in Haryana, the state police have made a foolproof three-tier security arrangement for the safety of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines brought to the designated strong rooms.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Haryana, Navdeep Singh Virk said that 90 strong rooms have been established at 59 different locations with a round-the-clock vigil to ensure the safety of EVMs and VVPAT machines.

Giving details about the security measures, Virk said that in the first layer, personnel of Central Armed Police Forces are deployed near the strong rooms, Haryana Armed Police personnel posted in the second layer and district police personnel are manning the outer layer.

Along with the two states, results will also be declared for assembly by-polls on 51 seats across 17 states and will have political implications for the parties in power.

Also read: SC to hear plea on Mumbai CRZ after Diwali break

Hyderabad: In the backdrop of counting of votes for the just concluded Haryana and Maharashtra assembly election beginning Thursday morning, heavy security has been deployed in and around strong rooms in both the states.

Along with state police, 25,000 security personnel have been deployed across Maharashtra to ensure that counting passes off smoothly. Counting of votes would begin at 8 am and be held at 269 different locations across Maharashtra. The Election Commission would also record a video of the entire counting process.

Meanwhile in Haryana, the state police have made a foolproof three-tier security arrangement for the safety of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines brought to the designated strong rooms.

Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order), Haryana, Navdeep Singh Virk said that 90 strong rooms have been established at 59 different locations with a round-the-clock vigil to ensure the safety of EVMs and VVPAT machines.

Giving details about the security measures, Virk said that in the first layer, personnel of Central Armed Police Forces are deployed near the strong rooms, Haryana Armed Police personnel posted in the second layer and district police personnel are manning the outer layer.

Along with the two states, results will also be declared for assembly by-polls on 51 seats across 17 states and will have political implications for the parties in power.

Also read: SC to hear plea on Mumbai CRZ after Diwali break

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Maha Assembly polls, LS bypoll: Counting of votes on Thursday
         Mumbai, Oct 22 (PTI) Counting of votes for Maharashtra
Assembly polls and Satara Lok Sabha bypoll, held on Monday,
will begin at 8 am on Thursday, election officials said.
         Exit polls have predicted that the BJP-Shiv Sena
alliance will retain power comfortably.
         Around 25,000 personnel have been deployed on counting
duty, an election official said on Wednesday. Police have also
made adequate arrangements to ensure the counting passes off
peacefully, he added.
         Counting of votes for the 288 Assembly segments will
be conducted at 269 locations, the officials said.
         The polling held on Monday saw a voter turnout of
61.13 per cent, a dip from the 63.20 per cent recorded in
2014, the official said.
         The highest turnout, of 83.93 per cent, was reported
in the Karveer assembly seat in Kolhapur, while the lowest was
in south Mumbai's upmarket Colaba area at 40.11 per cent.
         In the Satara Lok Sabha bypoll, also held on Monday,
the voter turnout was 67.15 per cent, the official said.
         The bypoll was necessitated after NCP MP Udayanraje
Bhosale quit the party and his Lok Sabha seat and joined the
ruling BJP, which renominated him from the constituency.
         The ruling BJP-Shiv Sena combine is arrayed against
the opposition Congress-NCP with the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi
being the dominant player among the other parties.
         Most exit polls, released immediately after polling
ended on Monday evening, have given the ruling alliance a
comfortable majority in the 288-member Assembly.
         The state has 8,98,39,600 eligible voters, including
1,06,76,013 in the age group of 18 to 25 years. Nearly 6.5
lakh polling personnel were deployed at 96,661 polling booths
across the state on election day. PTI ND
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