Agartala, Feb 27, 2013 : The entire stretch of Indo-Bangla international border along Tripura frontiers would be sealed from Wednesday as standard precautionary measure ahead of the counting of votes, a highly placed source in the state election department said on Wednesday . Chief Electoral Officer Ashutosh Jindal mentioned it as an upcoming strategy recently. Referring to the issue, the source on Tuesday mentioned that the department has had a dialogue with BSF officials in the Tripura frontiers over sealing the border till counting process gets over.
Meanwhile, nearly all observers deployed for the counting process in the state have reached Agartala by Tuesday evening leaving one. Sixty observers were engaged by Election Commission of India to oversee the counting of votes in Tripura for 2013 assembly election. 59 have made it to Agartala by Tuesday. The last one is scheduled to arrive by February 27. All of them would be deployed to man their respective workstations by Thursday itself, the source said adding that technical support team from the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) has arrived in the state. They would ensure that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) behave sane during the entire stretch of counting process, the source said with a wink!
Meanwhile, nearly all observers deployed for the counting process in the state have reached Agartala by Tuesday evening leaving one. Sixty observers were engaged by Election Commission of India to oversee the counting of votes in Tripura for 2013 assembly election. 59 have made it to Agartala by Tuesday. The last one is scheduled to arrive by February 27. All of them would be deployed to man their respective workstations by Thursday itself, the source said adding that technical support team from the Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) has arrived in the state. They would ensure that the Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) behave sane during the entire stretch of counting process, the source said with a wink!
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