Coimbatore: Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan courted a controversy on Wednesday after he attempted to shove off a television journalist with his walking stick when the latter tried to film him as he walked out of the Government College of Technology in the city, where electronic voting machines are stored.
The journalist was not injured in the incident. “It has caused me a lot of mental agony. He did this to me, despite telling him that I was a media person. I had taken videos of him several times during the election campaign. It is only now - after the election - he seems to have an issue with me,” the journalist said.
EVMs, control units reach counting centre
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Mini control room set up at college
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Mini control room set up at college
After polling ended at 7 p.m. Tuesday, 6,885 electronic voting machines, 5,316 control units and 5,894 voter verifiable paper audit trail machines from the 4,427 polling booths reached the constituency-wise strong rooms established at the counting centre in Government College of Technology.
Sources said while machines from polling booths within the city were taken first to the strong rooms, those from the city’s periphery followed and the ones to reach the strong rooms last were those from Valparai. There, the presiding officers handed over the machines to the officers in-charge of the strong rooms and left after completing the paper work. And, the entire process ended by around 8 a.m. Wednesday. Thereafter, security personnel took over the security of the strongrooms and the counting centre, where the machines would remain till
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Over 15,000 litres of sanitiser to be used for safe conduct of election
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36.78 lakh gloves will also be given to voters at polling booths
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Officials loading wheel chairs on to a vehicle at the Government Polytechnic for Women in the city on Monday to be sent to booths in Kavundampalayam Assembly constituency.
36.78 lakh gloves will also be given to voters at polling booths
To ensure that voters could vote as per the Election Commission of India’s COVID-19 safety guidelines, the district administration would use 15,283 litres of sanitiser on Tuesday.
The use of sanitiser would be in addition to the 36.78 lakh gloves that it would give to voters ahead of voting, said a release from the district administration.
Coimbatore: Flying squad officials seized 68 bags containing saris, veshtis and plates from the house of AIADMK booth agent Anitha at Bharathi Nagar in Ramanthapuram on Sunday.
The squad, which inspected Anitha’s house based on a tip-off, found the bags that had photos of AIADMK leaders.
Meanwhile, returning officer of Coimbatore north constituency U Murugesan seized Rs 5.56 lakh from Karthikeyan near the Government College of Technology during vehicle check on Monday. He was carrying the cash without any documents. TNN
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