The meeting, led by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, along with Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, was attended by the state’s Chief Electoral Officer and senior officials of the Commission.
Briefing meetings were held in three batches on Thursday and Friday at the ECI for 1444 officers, including 714 general observers, 233 police observers and 497 expenditure observers for the Assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
A total of 1,444 officers—comprising 714 General Observers, 233 Police Observers, and 497 Expenditure Observers—are participating in the sessions held in three batches at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) in New Delhi on February 5 and 6.
The last such conference was held in 1999. The upcoming event aims to strengthen institutional coordination between the ECI and State Election Commissions amid an increasingly complex electoral environment.
The Election Commission of India on Tuesday held a meeting with a delegation from the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) led by its state president Palla Srinivasa Rao at the Nirvachan Sadan here.
Uttarakhand Chief Secretary Sukhbir Singh Sandhu was to retire this month. Senior IAS officer Gyanesh Kumar worked as a secretary at the ministry of cooperation.
