Three companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), state police and Home Guards have been deployed at 76 sensitive polling centres in Gandhinagar district a day before Lok Sabha election’s third phase voting in Gujarat, informed Vassamshetty Ravi Teja, Superintendent of Police (SP), Gandhinagar, at a press meet in the state capital.

Gandhinagar district comprises Ahmedabad East, Gandhinagar, and Mehsana Lok Sabha seats.  The deployment will be in addition to the  1,550 police personnel from various police stations and Home Guards.  In Gandhinagar district's five assemblies, 76 polling centres have been listed as sensitive. 

Affirming that the deployment of security will be enough to ensure free, fair and transparent elections, Teja told Gujarat Samachar Digital that  76 polling booths/buildings have been identified as sensitive. Police personnel, Home Guards and one paramilitary personnel will be deployed there. 

There will be 1,550 Gujarat Police personnel, 1,400 Home Guards and three companies of CAPF and an additional two platoons of State Reserve Police Force (SRPF). 

Mehul Dave, collector and returning officer of Gandhinagar, told mediapersons today that Gandhinagar Lok Sabha constituency consists of seven assembly constituencies – Gandhinagar North, Kalol, Sanand, Ghatlodia, Vejalpur, Naranpura and Sabarmati, whereof 21,82,736 total registered voters.

There are 1,938 polling booths, including 2,611 polling booths and 7 model polling booths. 

Arrangements have been made considering the heatwave conditions on polling day. There will be fans, drinking water, buttermilk, lemon water, ORS, medical staff, besides wheelchair facilities as per need of the voters and election duty staff, Dave said.  

He added that voters will be assisted by booth level officers. The voters can vote by presenting any of the 12 government authorised photo identity cards. District election officials have begun dispatching the machinery for polling booths with staff, said Dave.  

Regarding the check posts in the district, a district election official said that around 1 lakh vehicles were checked at 28 check posts by election and police officials at various locations.

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