Election Commission to create social media cell for Haryana polls

During the meeting, deputy commissioner Amit Khatri shared that the total number of voters in the district was 1,186,857, with the count of male and female voters in the district currently at 626,100 and 560,757 respectively.

In the run-up to the assembly elections scheduled for October this year, the state election commission will create a social media cell to monitor all election-related posts on various social media platforms.

Election Commission of India Headquarter in New Delhi. (ANI File Photo)

The development was shared by the chief electoral officer of Haryana, Anurag Agarwal, on Monday during a meeting in the city with the deputy commissioners and election tehsildars of six districts that fall in the Gurugram and Faridabad divisions, namely Gurugram, Mewat, Faridabad, Palwal, Rewari, and Mahendragarh.

In the meeting, Agarwal reviewed the preparations for the upcoming assembly elections and said that the use of social media during elections had increased significantly which mandated that adequate attention was paid to it.

Agarwal said, “The election commission would put a special focus on social media activities and every election-related post on platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and others, would be monitored through the social media cell which will operate out of the Chandigarh secretariat.”

During the meeting, deputy commissioner Amit Khatri shared that the total number of voters in the district was 1,186,857, with the count of male and female voters in the district currently at 626,100 and 560,757 respectively.

Khatri also said that the election management plan for the district as well as individual booths had been prepared and sent to the state election commission.