Detailed Strategy Session
17/03/2019
Three Special Observers of the Election Commission held hectic meetings with all four Advisors to Governor and top officials of civil and police administration including the Chief Secretary, the Home Secretary and Director General of Police among others to assess requirement of additional number of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) as they weighed options of conducting Assembly elections either in May-June or in September-October.
Noor Mohammad, AS Gill and VinodZutshi, three Special Observers appointed by the Election Commission for conduct of Jammu and Kashmir elections met all four Advisors to the Governor including K Vijay Kumar, Khurshid Ahmad Ganai, KK Sharma and K Skandan this afternoon for detailed assessment of the security situation, election preparedness and other aspects of the prevailing scenario in the State. Advisor Incharge Home Department K Vijay Kumar briefed the Special Observers on security situation and preparedness of the Government for LokSabha and Assembly elections. Prior to meeting with the Advisors, the Special Observers had detailed strategy session with top officials of civil and police administration including Chief Secretary BVR Subrahmanyam, Home Secretary ShaleenKabra, Director General of Police (DGP) Dilbag Singh, Additional DGP Armed JavedGeelani and Additional DGP Security and Law & Order, Muneer Khan.
The administration was not averse to the Election Commission's proposal for conducting Assembly elections in May-June but wanted specific number of additional para-military companies and the civil and police officials projected their requirements on security front and also gave detailed account of factors including month of Ramzan, tourist season, ShriAmarnathJiYatra from July 1-August 15 for which deployment starts a fortnight before and heat wave in plains, which could impact the voting turnout. Some of them were reported to have briefed the Election Commission's Special Observers that the months of September and October were best suited for the elections as large number of para-military companies will be free from ShriAmarnathJiyatra duty then and the tourist season will also be over.
The Special Observers concluded their four-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir and returned to New Delhi where they will brief the Election Commission of India on assessment of the situation, feedback obtained from the State Government officials and possibility on conduct of Assembly elections. The Election Commission will take a final call on Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections shortly. The Commission could take one more opinion from the Union Ministry of Home Affairs before taking a decision on the Assembly polls.
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