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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar connected Saturday (December 27, 2025) began his three-day circuit of Odisha, and described the booth-level officers (BLOs), whom helium volition conscionable later, arsenic the "pillars of the predetermination process".
Accompanied by his family, Mr. Kumar arrived astatine the Biju Patnaik International Airport present and straightaway went to Puri for 'darshan' of the sibling deities — Lord Balabhadra, Devi Subhadra and Lord Jagannath.
"I person travel to Odisha with my household to person darshan of Lord Jagannath, to recognize and acquisition the section culture, and besides to conscionable our booth-level officers, who are the pillars of our predetermination process. We volition beryllium successful Odisha for 2 to 3 days," Mr. Kumar told reporters successful Bhubaneswar.
While Mr. Kumar is scheduled to sojourn Puri and Konark connected Saturday, helium volition sojourn respective practice and taste sites, including Raghurajpur village, renowned for 'Patachitra' paintings, Dhauli Shanti Stupa, the duplicate elevation complexes of Khandagiri and Udayagiri, and the Mukteswar Temple successful Bhubaneswar.
Before concluding his visit, Mr. Kumar volition interact with astir 700 BLOs from Khurda and Cuttack districts connected December 29 successful Bhubaneswar.
The BLOs volition play a large relation successful the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) workout successful Odisha, which is apt to beryllium conducted by the EC successful the 3rd phase.
The EC conducted SIR successful Bihar successful the archetypal phase, and the workout is underway successful 12 states and Union territories successful the 2nd phase. Odisha, and the remaining states and UTs are expected to beryllium covered successful the 3rd phase.
