With the hope that the brand new authorities of Assam will deal with their issues, Haleswar Ray on Tuesday voted for the social gathering of his selection at the only polling station arrange outdoors the Indo-Bangladesh border fencing within the state’s Dhubri district. Ray is without doubt one of the 386 voters of the polling station at Bhogdanga, a tiny hamlet within the Gauripur meeting constituency within the district, and voting was held peacefully within the third and closing part of the elections. Dhubri district, which shares 153 kms of the full 267.5 kms of Assam”s border with Bangladesh, has 63 polling stations alongside the worldwide boundary with 26 in Dhubri, 18 in Gauripur and 19 in Golokgunj constituencies, an official mentioned.
All these polling stations are contained in the border fence besides Bhogdanga which is outdoors it.
According to worldwide norms, a rustic has to erect border fences leaving a niche of 137 yards from the precise boundary. Because of this, Bhogdanga and its neighbouring village Fauskarkuti that are very near the precise border are located outdoors the fencing.
Inhabitants of the 2 villages who vote in Bhogdanga polling station are in a position to attain the opposite aspect of the fence when the BSF personnel open the border gates at 6 am they usually must return dwelling by the point the gates shut at 4 pm, the official mentioned.
“We have immense faith in the election process and hope that the new government will address all our issues in a time-bound manner,” Ray, who’s the village headman of Bhogdanga, instructed PTI.
He mentioned that they’ve myriad issues and the first concern is their safety.
The distant location of the villages pose main hurdles because the residents must rely on the opening of the border gates for entry to fundamental wants in markets on the opposite aspect of the fence, he mentioned.
There are 386 voters 206 male and 180 feminine – registered within the Bhogdanga polling station and most of them belong to the Muslim and the Koch Rajbongshi communities. Four voters are above the age of 80. “Almost all voters have exercised their franchise and polling was held smoothly,” the official mentioned.
Political social gathering staff go to the 2 villages outdoors the fence for canvassing.
Dhubri Deputy Commissioner Deva Kumar Kalita, who visited the polling station just lately to evaluation preparations, mentioned that the principle goal of the district administration is to make sure that all voters together with these dwelling alongside the worldwide border are in a position to train their voting rights.
A senior BSF official mentioned that their personnel have been engaged in serving to voters by offering them with safety cowl.
“During elections, we have to be extra cautious so that miscreants do not disrupt the poll process,” the official added.
