Central forces deployed for Malappuram by-election
The election commission has deployed 1,760 Electronic Voting Machines and 10 specialist engineers for the poll.
MALAPPURAM: As many as 13.12 lakh electorate in the Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency will choose their new representative in Parliament in the by-poll to be held on Wednesday. Besides the three major contenders- P.K. Kunhalikutty of the UDF, M.B. Faisal of the LDF and N. Sreeprakash of the NDA- there are six other independents in the fray. The polling will be held from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in all the 1,175 polling stations which will be managed by more than 4,700 officers. The election commission has deployed 1,760 Electronic Voting Machines and 10 specialist engineers for the poll.
Security has been beefed up throughout the constituency. Four companies of central security forces, besides the police, have been deployed. The authorities have identified 49 critical and 31 politically sensitive booths. The polling in all the sensitive stations would be videographed. Besides this, 35 booths have been identified as model polling stations for setting up all the infrastructural facilities, including ramp and wheelchairs for differently- abled voters. There are 21 booths which are managed by women officers. Of the 13.12 lakh electorate, women outnumber men. According to the latest electoral roll, there are 6,56,470 female and 6,56,273 male voters in Malappuram LS segment.
