Lyngdoh begins consultations for Gujarat polls

AHMEDABAD: Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh and Election Commissioners T S Krishnamurthy and B B Tandon, who are on a two-day visit to Gujarat to oversee preparations for the assembly elections scheduled to be held next month, started consultations with senior officials here on Monday.
Chief Secretary of State Government G Subba Rao and other state officials, including DGP K Chakravarty, attended the meeting, official sources said.
Earlier, the CEC held discussions with all the collectors except for Saurashtra region.
Issues such as law and order, deployment of forces and use of Electronic Voting Machines came up for discussion at the meeting, the sources added.
Lyngdoh arrived here on Monday morning to make a pre-poll assessment for the coming state assembly elections. Krishnamurthy and Tandon had arrived on Sunday night.