Security agencies asked to maintain strict vigil along international borders during Mizoram assembly elections: CEC Rajiv Kumar

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar said that security agencies are asked to maintain strict vigil during the Mizoram assembly elections along the Myanmar and Bangladesh international border as well as in inter-state bordering areas with Assam, Manipur and Tripura.

The CEC has held meetings with officials and political parties. He told media persons in Aizawl,"All enforcement agencies would remain extremely vigilant and for any laxity we would take stern action against the security agency and the individual.”

The CEC emphasised the need for vigilance in the inter-state check posts across the neighbouring states to ensure no cross-border movement of illicit cash, liquor, drugs, freebies takes place. “To curb illegal transactions of money and inducement, the Reserve Bank of India and the State Level Bankers Committee have been given detailed instructions to maintain the restrictions of monetary dealings”.


He directed the Mizoram Police, central forces, state Excise and Narcotics Department and Narcotics Control Bureau officials to maintain strict vigilance and help curtail the drug menace.

The full commission, led by CEC and accompanied by Election Commissioners -- Anup Chandra Pandey and Arun Goel and 15 senior EC officials, arrived in Aizawl on Tuesday on a three-day tour to review poll preparedness of the state.

The 40-member Mizoram Assembly will go to the polls towards the end of this year.

Kumar said that the political parties during the meeting urged the Election Commission to increase the limit of election expenditure for the candidates, arrange transport for the voters and not hold polling on Saturday and Sunday.

He said that there are 8.38 lakh voters in Mizoram, where final electoral rolls would be published on October 4 after the ongoing summary revision of the voters' list.

Of the total 1,276 polling stations, 95 polling stations would be all women-managed, 11 by otherwise-able employees, 40 by young polling personnel and 40 model police stations would be set up.