Rajasthan governor Kalraj Mishra to be chief guest at 12th National Voters’ Day today

JAIPUR: State’s chief electoral officer Praveen Gupta said Governor

Kalraj Mishra

will be the chief guest at the 12th National Voters’ Day programme to be held on Tuesday.

Gupta said the theme of the 12th National Voters’ Day is ‘Making Elections Inclusive, Accessible and Participatory’.

“Programmes will be organised at different levels based on this theme,” he said.

State election commissioner PS Mehra and chief secretary Niranjan Arya will be the special guests at the event. The state-level programme will be held virtually between 11.30 and 1 pm, said Gupta.

The governor will attend the function virtually from

Raj Bhavan

.

Special guests, state icons of the election department Shatabdi Awasthi and

Sunder Singh Gurjar

, officers of the election departments and officers who will be honoured will attend the programme from the conference hall at the Secretariat.

Gupta said all divisional commissioners, district election officers (collectors) and the electoral registration officers will be connected virtually from their respective headquarters.

After the state-level programme, events will be organised at the district and assembly headquarters.

Keeping in view the Covid situation, only seven officers will be honoured at the state-level programme in Jaipur, and the rest all will be honoured at the district-level events.