The elections campaigning has concluded in Manipur on Saturday evening at four-o'clock and silence period has commenced for the first phase election. The voting for the first phase polls for the thirty-eight assembly constituencies of five electoral district will be held on Monday. Political parties has mounted heavy campaigning in the last day of campaign to woo the voters. Meanwhile, the polling officials and security personnel who have been assigned for the polling stations situated at far-flung areas has already been dispatched for polls duty.<br />''<br />''With the commencement of silence period, the hectic political campaigning for the first phase polls in Manipur has came to end. Now the election officials has prepared to set up the polling stations including model polling stations in the thirty-eight assemblies constituencies in Manipur. More than twelve lakh nine thousand voters including one hundred and seventy five transgender voters is going to decide the fate of one hundred seventy-three candidates. These include eighteen Independent candidates and fifteen woman candidates which voting will be held on Monday. Voting will be held in one thousand seven hundred twenty-four polling stations including three auxiliary polling stations. More than three hundred companies of Para Military forces have been deployed to conduct the voting free and fair manners.<br />''<br />''In the first phase polls, BJP has field its candidates in all thirty-eight assembly constituencies while Opposition party Congress filed 35 candidates. Voting will be held from 7.00 AM to 4.00 PM. Twenty-eight candidates of Janata Dal (United) and twenty-seven candidates of NPP are also in the fray. Meanwhile, polling officials and security personnel of the polling stations situated at far flung assembly constituencies including Tipaimukh (ST) and Thanlon (ST) has been dispersed for polls duty yesterday. Some polling officials teams also left district headquarters today for polls duty.&nbsp;<br />''<br />''<br />
News On AIR | February 26, 2022 8:09 PM
Campaign for 1st phase of polling ends in Manipur