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Over 4,200 teams, including 2,106 flying squads and arsenic galore static surveillance teams, person been deployed crossed Tamil Nadu to show suspicious question of currency and goods, with the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) having travel into unit successful transportation with the April 23 State Assembly polls.
Addressing journalists astatine the Secretariat successful Chennai connected Monday (March 16, 2026), Tamil Nadu Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Archana Patnaik said adjacent integer transactions would beryllium monitored, and meetings person been held with 23 enforcement agencies successful this regard. Since the MCC came into unit connected Sunday (March 15) evening, [unaccounted] currency and goods valued astatine ₹1.26 crore person been seized by surveillance officials.
Cash limit
As for immoderate of the issues raised by traders regarding the question of wealth during the MCC play and an entreaty to summation the bounds for carrying cash, Ms. Patnaik said the existing rules would continue. “If they person documents, immoderate magnitude is allowed. But they should person due documents and nutrient [them].” Asked for circumstantial documents that were required to beryllium produced, she said they should amusement from wherever the currency was withdrawn/the root of the cash.
Appealing to the electors to cheque their names and numbers successful their respective polling stations, the CEO said it was “better to cheque and support [them] ready.” Booth level officers (BLOs) person been instructed to assistance the electors successful this regard. Those intending to see their names successful the electoral rolls could bash truthful till March 26. Since the work of the last electoral rolls, astir 3.14 lakh radical person applied for inclusion successful the electoral rolls, she said.
Replying to a query, she said that nominations could beryllium filed betwixt 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. from March 30 until the past day of filing nominations connected April 6, but March 31, April 3, and April 5.
AI videos
As portion of surveillance, AI-generated videos connected societal media would besides beryllium monitored, the CEO said. Replying to a query connected the support for nationalist meetings, Ms. Patnaik said parties should use for specified meetings connected the Suvidha portal and they would beryllium considered connected a first-come-first-serve basis.
About 3 lakh unit were being trained for the April 23 election, and 50 companies of paramilitary unit person reported for work successful Tamil Nadu, with much to follow. Election observers would beryllium deployed aft the notification for the predetermination is issued connected March 30.
