Sunday, 5 May 2019

Re-poll for 3 assembly, 5 lok sabha seats in AP on May 6

Amaravati, May 5 Re-poll would be conducted Monday in five polling booths for three Assembly and five Lok Sabha segments in three districts of Andhra Pradesh.

Elections were held simultaneously for Lok Sabha and assembly in the state April 11.

In view of the reports by the respective returning officers and observers, the ECI had Wednesday last issued a request coordinating that re-surveying be held in five polling booths in Guntur, Prakasam and SPS Nellore districts.

The re-poll was ordered in the wake of technical glitches in the electronic casting a ballot machines in the polling booths.

It would be held from 7 am to 6 pm in these surveying stalls, state boss discretionary officer Gopal Krishna Dwivedi told reporters here Sunday.

"We have given clear directions to the separate returning officers and other staff on gathering information in a secure way. A delegate administrator of police will regulate the security courses of action at each polling booth," Dwivedi added.

Additional EVMs have been kept for reserve while engineers from BHEL have been deployed at each polling booth to attend to any technical issue. Counting of votes would be held May 23.

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