PHOTOS: Polling Officers Take Boats To Reach Assam\'s Remotest Booths
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10/04/2019 6:50 PM IST
PHOTOS: Polling Officers Take Boats To Reach Assam's Remotest Booths
In Assam five constituencies — Tezpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur— are going to polls on Thursday.
Thousands of officials from the Election Commission are already preparing for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections that begin on Thursday.
In the first phase, 91 constituencies in 18 states and two Union Territories going to polls. In Assam five constituencies — Tezpur, Kaliabor, Jorhat, Dibrugarh, Lakhimpur— are going to polls, and some of them are in remote locations.
And since this democratic exercise must happen, no matter how far the booth is, the officials much reach. So they took boats.
ReutersElection staff carrying Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail machines and an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) board a boat to reach remote polling stations at Lahori Chapori in Golaghat district in the northeastern state of Assam.
STR via Getty ImagesOfficials carry EVMs on a boat, as security personnel watch over, to reach remote polling stations, in Dibrugarh, some 480 kms from Guwahati.
STR via Getty ImagesThe officials on their way to Dibrugarh.
Adnan Abidi / ReutersA polling officer carrying an electronic voting machinewalks toward his vehicle after arriving on a ferryboat in Nimatighat, Jorhat district, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam
Adnan Abidi / Reuters
Adnan Abidi / ReutersPolling officers carry electronic voting machines to the polling station in Nimatighat, Jorhat district of Assam.
