COIMBATORE: Electronic voting machines (EVMs) along with 106 polling booth materials were sent to 3,070 booths across Coimbatore district with tight police security on Wednesday from here.
Election to the Lok Sabha constituencies and by-election for 18 Assembly constituencies has been scheduled on Thursday in TN.
As many as 14 candidates are contesting for Coimbatore and 14 for Pollachi constituencies. Around 3,070 polling booths has been setup for the voters to poll in ten Assembly constituencies across the district out which 1,880 booths are identified as sensitive booths; web cameras are installed in the sensitive booths and will be brought under surveillance, said a higher official.
Across the district around 5,000 police personnel are deployed on election duty along with them paramilitary force, special task force from neighboring Kerala, Tamil Nadu special task force and Tamil Nadu Commando force will join in election protection duty in sensitive areas and booths across the district.
As many as 300 tempos gathered at Police ground on Avinashi road, around 50 cabs were arranged and made to assemble at the government school campus in new Sidhapudur for the micro observers, after loading the tempos and vans with booth materials including EVM, ink, candles, thread, matchbox among other materials numbering 106 in all, the tempos and vans were pasted with constituency details and booth numbers. The tempos were sent to the corresponding booths with tight police security on Wednesday.
