5,780 polling employees to cast vote at their booths

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 14

As many as 5,780 employees of the Jalandhar parliamentary constituency who have been assigned poll duty will exercise their franchise at booths of their duty within the constituency on May 19.

The district administration has issued Election Duty Certificates (EDC) to them in this regard.

Divulging the details, Deputy Commissioner-cum-District Election Officer(DEO) Varinder Kumar Sharma, accompanied by Election Expenditure Observers Preeti Chaudhary and Amit Shukla, said all employees who have been assigned poll duty and were residents of the Jalandhar parliamentary segment would be eligible to cast their votes at the place of their duty.

The Deputy Commissioner (DC) said: “They have been issued Election Duty Certificate after they had filled the form 12-A with their concerned Assistant Registration Officer.

Sharma said: They will have to produce the Election Duty Certificate before the Polling Officer at the concerned booth or at the booth nearest to the place of their duty so that they can cast their vote.”

He said 506 employees of Jalandhar Commissionerate Police, 766 of Jalandhar Rural Police, 297 from Phillaur assembly segment, 297 from Nakodar, 280 from Shahkot, 295 from Kartarpur, 750 of Jalandhar West, 768 of Jalandhar Central, 735 of Jalandhar North, 706 of Jalandhar Cantt and 380 of Adampur assembly segment have applied for the Election Duty Certificate.

The DEO said the district administration was committed to ensure that every voter cast his vote so that the ethos of democracy strengthened at the grassroots level.

Flag march by security forces

As per the directions issued by the Jalandhar Commissioner of Police, a flag march was carried out here today at division No 8 area covering vulnerable points —Reru Pind, Pathankot chowk, KMV road, Aman Nagar, Preet Nagar, Doaba chowk, Devi Talab Mandir, Dhobri Mohalla, Kot Baba Deep Singh Nagar, Sodal chowk, Shiv Nagar, Saipur road, Focal Point and Gadaipur—to instil confidence among the residents for the ensuing Lok Sabha Poll. As many as 100 personnel of the Punjab Police, ITBP and CRPF participated in the march.