Arrangements for re-polling reviewed

Guntur: District Collector Kona Sasidhar, Guntur urban SP Ch Vijaya Rao, GMC in-charge commissioner and Guntur West Assembly constituency returning officer AVNS Murthy on Friday visited polling booth No 244 at Indira Gandhi Nagar 22nd lane at Nallacheruvu where re-polling will be conducted on May 6 by the Election Commission of India.

They reviewed the arrangements for conducting the re-polling. Collector Sasidhar directed the officials to develop the polling centre as model polling centre and set up separate polling booths for men and women. He directed them to paint the polling booth and set up closed circuit cameras in the polling booth and barricades besides providing drinking water and butter milk.

He instructed the officials to complete the arrangements at the earliest. Similarly, the ECI is conducting the re-polling at Inumetla under Rajupalem mandal of Sattenpalli Assembly constituency on May 6.

The district officials are making necessary arrangements for conducting the re-polling at Inumetla where YSRCP activists allegedly attacked Assembly Speaker Dr Kodela Siva Prasada Rao.