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GANGTOK, March 14: State Election Office has completed the process of publication of State electoral rolls and the final total of voters stands at 2,97,580.
As per the official website of the State Election Office, a total of 8135 names have been deleted from the electoral rolls of East district with 1170 names deleted from the Gangtok (BL) constituency alone. Shyari (BL) constituency comes a close second with 1077 deletions and Khamdong-Singtam constituency stands at third with 869 deletions.
There have been 2,183 deletions of names from the electoral rolls in South district. Namthang-Rateypani has the highest deletion with 417 names in the South district
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No information has been provided for West and North districts so far.
Meanwhile, the State Election Office is overseeing hectic preparations to conduct peaceful, free and fair elections for the Sikkim Legislative Assembly and for the lone Lok Sabha seat from the State.
Joint Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) CP Dhakal said that all the polling booths in the State have now been finalized. He said that the number of polling booths in the State has increased to 493 now which were 445 during the last election.
Process of publication of State electoral rolls has been completed while the appointment of Presiding and Polling Officers is going on, said Mr. Dhakal.
Training for Presiding Officer of South District will be held on the March 18 at Namchi.
Meanwhile, the EVMs which were destroyed in a fire in Gangtok recently have now been replaced by new ones.
The Joint CEO said that there is no dearth of EVMs in the State as 500 additional EVMs have been procured from Nagaland. He said that the first level checking of these new EVMs will start from Monday and will be undertaken by four engineers from the Kolkata office of the Electronic Corporation of India
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A meeting of all political parties has been called at Chintan Bhawan in Gangtok on next Tuesday to discuss the election related issues.
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