Nellore, Atmakur, Buchireddypalem Ready For Municipal Polls

Candidates from 13 wards have been declared elected unopposed, eight of them in Nellore Municipal Corporation (NMC) and five in Buchireddypalem municipality.

According to Nellore collector and district election officer Himanshu Shukla, 594 polling stations have been established across the three urban local bodies. NMC accounts for the largest share with 72 wards, 509 polling stations, and 4,89,351 voters. Atmakur has 28 wards, 30 polling stations, and 26,529 voters, while Buchireddypalem has 28 wards, 55 polling stations, and 36,438 voters.

District administration has classified 52 polling stations as highly sensitive and 200 as sensitive. Nellore has 52 highly sensitive and 174 sensitive polling stations. Buchireddypalem has 26 sensitive stations, while all 30 stations in Atmakur have been classified as normal.

As many as 4,351 personnel have been deployed for polling duties. They include 713 presiding officers, 713 assistant presiding officers, 2,851 other polling personnel, and 74 micro-observers. As many as 1,725 police personnel have been deployed to take care of security during the elections.

Fifty teams, including 11 flying squad teams, 16 static surveillance teams, and 23 Model Code of Conduct monitoring teams, have been constituted to monitor the implementation of the Model Code of Conduct, election expenditure, and the movement of illegal cash and other inducements.

The collector said all departments have been instructed to coordinate with each other to ensure peaceful and transparent polling.

He appealed to voters to exercise their franchise freely without being influenced by any inducements.