UMERKOT: Provincial Election Commissioner Aijaz Anwar Chohan on Monday held a meeting with the district returning officers (DROs), returning officers (ROs), and other subordinate officials to review the arrangements for the PS-52 Umerkot-II by-election scheduled for January 18.

The by-election was to be held on April 15 for which all arrangements were finalised but had to be postponed on March 23 on account of Covid-19 pandemic outbreak in the country.

Mr Chohan told the meeting that all 12 candidates whose names were to appear on the ballot paper were in the race. He said that a total of 4,237 polling booths were set up at 128 polling stations in the constituency. There are a total of 154,187 eligible voters in the constituency.

He noted that 50 polling stations had been declared ‘sensitive’, adding that assistance of Sindh Rangers and Pakistan Army could be sought in case of a serious law and order situation anywhere in the polling area.

Regional election commissioner Masood Ahmed Quraishi, district monitoring officer Shah Nawaz Brohi and ADC-I Subhash Chander were among the other officials who attended the meeting.

Published in Dawn, December 22nd, 2020