Measures for peaceful voting: Mangaluru city police commissioner Vipul Kumar
Mangaluru: City Police Commissioner Vipl Kumar said that necessary measures have been taken up for a peaceful voting during the May 12’s state Assembly polls.
Addressing a press conference at his office this morning, Mr. Kumar said that there are four Legislative Assembly constituencies and 877 booths under the limits of Mangaluru city police. The constituencies are Mangaluru South, Mangaluru North, Mangaluru and Moodbidri. Among the 877 booths, 201 have been identified as critical booths, he said.
Mr. Kumar briefed that "a total of 26 check-posts have been set up, out of which 6 are inter-state border check-posts. There are 14 flying squads. Around 2,700 personnel and officers (CAPF, civil police, armed police and home guards) have been deployed for the election bandobast duties.”
In view of maintaining law and order, 1,908 weapons have been deposited by gun license holders, 753 security-related cases have been filed. 2,756 rowdy-sheeters and 90 potential trouble-makers are under surveillance.
DCP Hanumantharaya and Uma Prashant were also present.
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ECI website faces outage amid vote counting in Jharkhand, Maharashtra
New Delhi: Election Commission of India’s official results website ‘results.eci.gov.in’ has reportedly experienced a technical outage on Saturday morning, at a time when India closely watches the high-stakes Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly poll battle.
Visitors visiting the site were met with non-functional links and a generic “counting in progress” message, leaving them without updated election data. The ECI has not issued an official explanation for the disruption.
Vote counting, which began at 8 a.m. with postal ballots, is underway for 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra and 81 in Jharkhand. Early trends suggest a lead for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra, currently ahead in 141 seats, while the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is leading in 96. In Jharkhand, the BJP-led NDA is ahead in 43 seats, while the ruling JMM-led alliance is trailing with leads in 33 constituencies.
Additionally, counting is underway for 48 assembly bypolls across 13 states and two parliamentary seats, Nanded in Maharashtra and Wayanad in Kerala.
