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Lyngdoh happy over Meghalaya poll preparations
Shillong, Jan 18: The Chief Election Commissioner, J M Lyngdoh today said that he was satisfied with the poll preparations in Meghalaya going to the assembly elections on February 26.
Shillong, Jan 18: The Chief Election Commissioner, J
M Lyngdoh today said that he was satisfied with the poll
preparations in Meghalaya going to the assembly elections on
February 26.
Addressing a press conference here, Lyngdoh said the
preparation was much better than that of the last elections in
1998.
The CEC said that he was hopeful that the election in the
state would be smooth as the state was more peaceful than
Tripura and Nagaland.
Lyngdoh praised the state election authorities for
covering 80 per cent of the total 12,79,740 voters under photo
identity cards and said that the authorities should speed up
in issuing these cards to the voters.
Expressing slight apprehension about holding of
elections in the areas close to the international frontier, he
said militants moved around in those parts of the state.
When asked what action the commission would take
against a Meghalaya minister, R A Lyngdoh who had inaugurated
a school building in his Sohiong constituency after
announcement of poll date, Lyngdoh said that the minister was
not informed about the announcement.
He said that the commission would not take any action in
this case and warned that such thing should not be repeated.
''Had it happened elsewhere where people do things
intentionally, the commission would have taken stern action'',
he said.
Bureau Report