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Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar connected Friday (March 6, 2026) urged governmental parties to guarantee that the behaviour of the forthcoming Assembly elections remained a exemplary not lone for the full country, but for the full world.
Mr. Kumar, who held a reappraisal of canvass preparedness here, reiterated that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had been conducted successful the astir transparent manner.
He was quoted arsenic saying successful an authoritative merchandise that the nonsubjective of the SIR was to guarantee that nary eligible elector was near retired and that nary ineligible idiosyncratic was included successful the electoral rolls. He said that Forms 6, 7 and 8 could inactive beryllium filed for inclusions, deletions oregon changes. He assured each governmental parties that elections were ever held arsenic per instrumentality successful an impartial, free, just and transparent manner. He encouraged them to usage the cVIGIL constituent of the ECINET level of the Election Commission of India to record complaints of violations of the codification of behaviour during elections.
He held a elaborate reappraisal with heads and nodal officers of enforcement agencies, IGs, DIGs, territory predetermination officers, and SPs connected assorted aspects of predetermination planning, physics voting instrumentality management, logistics, grooming of predetermination staff, seizures, instrumentality and order, elector consciousness and outreach activities.
He directed each heads and nodal officers of enforcement agencies to enactment with implicit impartiality and firmly clamp down connected each inducement-related activities. He besides asked each territory predetermination officers to guarantee that assured minimum facilities (AMFs), including ramps, wheelchairs and drinking water, are made disposable astatine each polling stations for the comfortableness of voters.
Representatives of a fewer governmental parties who interacted with the CEC urged him to support successful caput the upcoming section festivals portion finalising the predetermination dates. Some parties suggested making peculiar arrangements to assistance aged voters and persons with disabilities.
The parties urged the Commission to instrumentality stringent measures to curb the usage of wealth powerfulness and the organisation of liquor and freebies during elections. They besides raised concerns implicit the usage of artificial quality and synthetically generated contented successful vitiating the electoral atmosphere, according to the release.
