CEO Nagaland pleads with EC to ask Assam Police to vacate bldg

The Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Nagaland, has sought the intervention of the Election Commission to use its office to urge Assam Police vacate a school building, situated along the state border, for voting purpose.
CEO Nagaland Sentiyanger Imchen told a press meet that voting in Ladaigarh Polling Station No. 1, located at the government lower primary school had to be shifted to a different spot even during the past elections, "As the Assam police personnel were occupying the building."
Maintaining that the school building is a designated polling station for 302 electorate of the area, Imchen requested Assam police to vacate the school building so that people of the area can cast their vote in the designated polling station.

He, however, added that even if the school building was not vacated, alternative arrangements will be made within the periphery so that people can exercise their franchise.
Nagaland government and the state election department have taken up the matter with the Election Commission and Union Home Ministry, he said.
Imchen said five companies of central armed forces have been deployed in Nagaland, besides other polling personnel so that peaceful balloting can take place on April 9.