Know Your Constituency: 13,51,496 Voters, 1,551 Polling Station, Silchar is all geared up for Lok Sabha Polls

Starting from April 1, one by one, each political party began to nominate their champions for Silchar’s Lok Sabha seat. The election for which is scheduled to be conducted on April 26. On April 1, Trinamool Congress submitted their nomination naming Radheshyam Biswas as their Candidate, and on April 3, BJP and Congress both submitted the names for their candidates.

BJP submitted the nomination for Parimal Suklabaidya, and Congress nominated Suryakanta Sarkar. All three parties are extremely confident and believe they will win with no doubt. While for TMC, Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev in person went with other party members to submit their nomination, and the same was done by the CM of Assam Himanta Biswa Sarma, who also went to the DC Office to nominate BJP’s candidate. No such big leaders were present for Congress’s nomination.

Three heavyweight candidates of Silchar have been nominated, among them 2 had the backing of 2 well-known big leaders. While Suryakanta Sarkar of Congress had the support of around 5000 Congress workers and other supporters with no big leader present. Although, Abhijit Paul, the President of Cachar District Congress claimed that Congress had gathered more crowd than BJP despite the presence of CM. He believes that shows the future of the election.

Recently, the details of the assembly segment under Silchar were released, and there have been 7 LACs listed with over 1000 polling stations. 114 Lakhipur is supposed to have a total of 195 polling stations with 1,68,202 voters, among them 84,209 are males, 83,992 are females, and 1 transgender.

115 Udharbond is having 211 polling stations with 1,84,372 voters. Among them 90,863 are males, 93,507 are females, and 2 transgenders. 116 Katigorah is having 247 polling stations with 2,09,658 voters. 1,06,385 male voters, 1,03,269 female voters, and 4 Transgenders. 117 Borkhola is having 237 polling stations with 1,99,152 voters consisting of 1,00,634 male voters, 98,517 female voters, and 1 transgender.

118 Silchar is having 233 polling stations with 2,13,386 voters, among them male voters are 1,03,972, female voters are 1,09,404, and transgender voters are 10. After Silchar, 119 Sonai with 222 Polling stations and 120 Dholai (SC) with 206 polling stations. Sonai is having 1,85,952 total number of voters with 94,011 being males and 91,936 being females. The rest 5 are transgenders. And Dholai is having 1,90,774 with 96,257 male voters and 94,516 female voters and 1 transgender.

In total, there are 1551 polling stations and as many as 13,51,496 voters ready to vote in the upcoming elections. Out of which a total number of 6,76,331 are male voters, 6,75,141 female voters, and 24 transgenders.

Recently, another significant development was reported for Borkhola’s Jarailtola area, where the strongroom used to be located at a NETRIP near Jarailtola, has now been shifted to Silchar, Ramnagar’s ISBT. It was informed by DC Cachar, Rohan Kumar Jha on Monday. He informed that the strongroom being located in NETRIP used to create various issues. He stated that the biggest issue is that NETRIP isn’t located at the centre of the district.

Although the location of the strongroom used to be beneficial for Jarailtola, Borkhola, and Lakhipur, being in close proximity, it was not beneficial for the other constituencies. So, this time the counting would be done at Silchar ISBT on June 4.