Chennai, Feb 23:
Ahead of Parliament elections, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar, accompanied by senior officials of the Election Commission of India, on Friday commenced his two-day review of preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections.
Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar reached Chennai during the late hours of Thursday and was accompanied by Election Commissioner Arun Goel, Senior Deputy Election Commissioners Dharmendra Sharma, Nitesh Kumar Vyas, Deputy Election Commissioners Ajay Bhadu, Manoj Kumar sahoo, Principal Secretary Malay Malik and senior officers Narayanan and Anuj Chandak.
CEC met the representatives of as many nine political parties including the Dravidian majors and discuss the issues on conducting the poll and also hold a review meeting with the district collector and superintendents of police later in the day.
In this advisory meeting, the proposed date of election, polling station, code of conduct etc. will be discussed. It would be followed by the meeting with Collectors and SPs. He would hold meeting with cheif election officers, state police nodal officers of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala on Saturday
The CEC would meet the Chief Electoral Officers of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala besides the officials from the enforcement agencies before wrapping up his meeting with the Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary and state DGP.
