EC team reviews poll preparation in Bihar

Patna: Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora accompanied by Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa, addresses a press conference after chairing a meeting to review poll preparedness in Bihar ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha elections, in Patna on Jan 18, 2019.

Patna, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday directed Bihar government to transfer all government officials posted at a place for the last three years or more.

Arora also instructed airport and railway officers to go all out against inflow of black money into the state.

The 11-member Commission team headed by Arora concluded its two-day tour of Bihar on Friday and held a review meetings with all officers concerned for election preparedness for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

The EC team held a meeting with leaders of political parties in the state and assured them of conducting free and fair polls.

The team also met Bihar Chief Electoral Officer and nodal officers of the state police and Central forces, Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar and Director General of Police K.S. Dwivedi.

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