UP Updates, UP election 2022 Highlights: EC delegation holds meetings with district magistrates, police officers in UP

Uttar Pradesh Night Curfew Today Latest Updates, 29 December: An official spokesperson said the delegation met district magistrates, police chiefs, commissioners, IGs, DIGs and other officials and reviewed the preparations for the upcoming polls to ensure free and fair elections.

By: Express Web Desk
Lucknow | December 27, 2021 10:48 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a rally in Farrukhabad. (Twitter/BJP4India)Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during a rally in Farrukhabad. (Twitter/BJP4India)

UP Assembly Election 2022 Highlights: A day after it met with district and division level officials to review the preparations for next year’s state assembly elections, a delegation of the Election Commission is slated to hold a press conference in Lucknow on Thursday. The EC delegation, which arrived here on Tuesday, met district magistrates, police chiefs, commissioners, IGs, DIGs and other officials and reviewed the preparations for the upcoming polls to ensure free and fair elections.

Meanwhile, Kanpur police on Wednesday arrested five Samajwadi Party (SP) workers for allegedly indulging in rioting and criminal conspiracy to disturb peace during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Kanpur visit earlier this week.

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Taking a dig at Opposition, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Wednesday said that if there was SP or BSP govt, then all the money meant for public welfare would have gone into their personal bank accounts.

Speaking at a rally in Farrukhabad, Adityanath said, “We’re giving free COVID19 vaccines to all and free ration to the poor. This is what happens when there is a good government. If there was SP or BSP govt, then all the money meant for public welfare would have gone into their personal accounts.”

 

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Uttar Pradesh: EC team meets senior police, admin officials

A delegation of the Election Commission of India (EC) on Wednesday held a meeting with district election officers (DEOs), superintendents of police, police commissioners and divisional commissioners to assess the law and order situation and the administration’s preparedness in view of the UP Assembly elections due early next year.

In the meetings, the delegation led by CEC Sushil Chandra is learnt to have directed the officials to focus on increasing voter turnout as compared to 2017, improve gender ratio in the electoral roll, increase turnout of women voters and make efforts to seize unaccounted cash.

 

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