Polling officials with EVMs and other election material board a helicopter to reach the Naxal-affected areas of Gadchiroli district ahead of Maharashtra Assembly elections.
Credit: PTI Photo
Gadchiroli: With just three days left for the Maharashtra assembly elections, election officials and EVMs were ferried in helicopters to base camps in the Naxal-affected Gadchiroli district on Sunday, police said.
Gadchiroli SP Neelotpal said Indian Air Force's Mi 17 helicopters carried election officials deployed for 76 polling stations in the sensitive Aheri assembly constituency in the early hours of the day.
He said polling personnel with EVMs and other equipment were being dropped off at 14 base camps at police stations for further onward movement.
The exercise of transporting officials and equipment will continue till November 19, he said.
More than 900 polling stations have been set up in three assembly constituencies of the Naxal-affected district.
Assembly poll results will be declared on November 23.
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