With no repolling recommendations, Bengal & Tamil Nadu break 'past pattern', says EC

NEW DELHI: Not a azygous repoll has been recommended crossed the 44,376 polling stations successful West Bengal and the 75,064 polling stations successful Tamil Nadu, EC sources told TOI connected Friday. This is simply a interruption from the signifier of aggregate repolls recommended successful the past elections, peculiarly successful Bengal, connected relationship of governmental unit and alleged electoral malpractices.

Both Bengal and Tamil Nadu had witnessed the highest ever polling percentages connected Thursday. Bengal clocked astir 92.9% turnout successful its archetypal signifier aft deletion of astir 83 lakh electors from the state's canvass rolls owed to SIR.A three-point verification was enactment successful spot astatine each the polling stations of Bengal connected Thursday, truthful arsenic to support a choky cheque connected electoral malpractices associated with past elections successful the state, known successful communal parlance arsenic 'chaapa', 'source jamming' and 'booth jamming'.The archetypal constituent of verification was the contiguous country surrounding the polling station. Section 163 of BNSS (which corresponds with Section 144 of the erstwhile IPC) was imposed connected Thursday wrong a 200-metre country of the polling stations. Identity papers of each idiosyncratic entering this country were checked and lone genuine electors, predetermination officials etc allowed entry.The 2nd circular of verification was done astatine the constituent of introduction to the polling station.

Booth-level officers and volunteers of NSS and NCC were deployed to cheque each idiosyncratic earlier letting him queue up for voting. This included verifying individuality of 'pardanasheen' women (women wearing look veils arsenic a spiritual custom) by pistillate staff. The latter, arsenic instructed by EC, checked the individuality card, elector paper oregon elector gaffe of each idiosyncratic earlier allowing them to proceed to the voters' queue.The 3rd verification was the mean individuality cheque performed by the polling serviceman wrong the polling booth, earlier the elector gets his digit inked and casts his vote.