GUWAHATI: The Guwahati Lok Sabha constituency will have 102 all-women polling booths in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
The constituency will also have 15 model polling stations, according to its Returning Officer and Kamrup Metro District Commissioner Sumit Sattawan.
"We will have 102 all-women polling stations. All the personnel of these booths will be women. Besides, we will also have 15 model polling stations in our constituency," the official told the press yesterday.
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Guwahati constituency, which consists of 10 Assembly constituencies, will vote on May 7 in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls in Assam and altogether 2.181 polling booths will be spread across the Kamrup (Metropolitan), Kamrup and Goalpara districts.
"We have 20,19,444 voters - 9,93,268 men, 10,26,118 women and 58 third gender. These figures are likely to go up after taking into account the new voter applications," Sattawan revealed during the press conference.
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Sattawan further said that around 9,000 civil servants will be engaged during the upcoming polls, along with a considerable number of security personnel. "We will also have 25 flying squads, 15 static surveillance teams and 15 video surveillance teams for enforcing the model code of conduct in letter and spirit," he said.
Assam will vote in three phases on April 19, April 26 and May 7, the ECI announced on Saturday.
