16 members of team of Election Commission of India (ECI) are arriving in the state on January 11 for a two-day visit.
Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Kiran Gitte said on January 10 some officials of ECI will be arriving in Tripura and on 11th of January the election commissioner is expected to arrive.
“A team of election commission of India is arriving in Tripura on January 10 but the team of Election Commissioners are arriving on January 11 at 2 PM flight along with them senior deputy commissioner of EC. Officials related to media, EVM machines, polling stations are coming. A team of 16 members are arriving. They will stay here till 12th January and will leave for Shillong, Nagaland and on 15th they will probably leave for Delhi”, said Gitte.
He said that there will be two programs including one where the officials of election commission of India will hold meeting with all the political parties on 11th January at state guest house and on 12th January they will hold a press conference at Ujjayanta Palace.
He further informed that on 28 December, 50 companies of CAPF arrived in Tripura and on January 08 more 50 companies of CAPF arriving.
“We will deploy them in such places based on previous records of violence”, Gitte told reporters.
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