The 10th Assembly elections will go down in history as one of the bloodiest. Numbers of blast, attacks can not be recorded. Attack on the residence of the Speaker Irengbam Hemochandra on Sunday evening proved to be fatal A man died and four sustained injuries. Four were also injured during a meeting of Congress candidate Korungthang. Security tasks are extremely challenging as people can not be denied entry to the residences of the Congress candidates as candidates are trying to woo votes by inviting people. The Speaker was bold reacting to the bomb attract and he said “this is not going to undermine the democratic process, people can not be intimidated by such act”. People are in a dilemma as many are not fortunate enough to know even their own candidates. Due to stringent ECI measures to check misuse of money and muscle power people are not fortunate enough to know and listen to the candidates who would represent them. Campaigns are galore and some programmes done by the agencies of the Information and Broadcasting. The state election department should make people aware of the issues and election related programmes in the newspapers. Such programmes should also be broadcast in electronic media but unfortunately people are not able to glue to their television sets as there is no power supply in the state. About 350 companies of security personnel would be used for the election and unlike previous elections, this time elections would be done on a single day. The ECI should review the security situation as elections held in violent times could not produce good results. People and candidates are anxious and tense, a calm mind is needed to elect good representatives. With each passing day more and more security personnel are coming, but violence is increasing. The insurgency related issues should be addressed immediately. Attacks on candidates,arrest of political workers are increasing. People should be assured that arrests are not confined to a particular groupd. It should encompass those from ruling front. Check money power and at the sametime check violence.
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