Uttar Pradesh's chief electoral officer, Navdeep Rinwa, has asked senior officers from 23 enforcement agencies to coordinate closely and keep a tight watch on money, alcohol and narcotics ahead of the 2027 assembly polls.
Each assembly seat will get nine flying squads and nine static surveillance teams. The Election Commission is also flagging constituencies that need extra scrutiny, using seizure data from the 2022 assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
Seizures will be logged on a shared web portal so every agency can act on them quickly.
On Monday the Election Commission of India starts checking how ready Uttar Pradesh is for the 2027 assembly polls, beginning with 18 districts across four divisions.
Manish Garg, a senior deputy election commissioner, will lead the review alongside fellow commission officials, and state election chief Navdeep Rinwa will also take part. Local officials will present on staffing, vehicles, voter lists, voting machines and awareness drives.
The meeting in Meerut begins at 10.30 am, and the team will then cover the rest of the state's divisions and districts.
The Election Commission has approved a reshuffle of polling stations across all 403 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, cutting their total by 3,786. The state will now have 1,73,730 stations, down from 1,77,516, Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said.
The changes are based on a benchmark of 1,200 voters per station, applied across all 75 districts.
The draft electoral roll for the Special Summary Revision, which uses January 1, 2027 as its qualifying date, will be published at these new stations. Voters whose stations have changed will be informed in writing through booth level officers.
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