EVMs used in Madurai Lok Sabha Constituency shifted to strong rooms

The Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) used in Madurai Lok Sabha Constituency for polling on April 19 were shifted to the strong rooms at Madurai Medical College, the counting centre for the constituency. The Madurai constituency registered 62.04 % polling on Friday.

The EVMs used in the six Assembly segments of Madurai North, Madurai South, Madurai East, Madurai West, Madurai Central and Melur in the Lok Sabha constituency were shifted to the counting centre in trucks accompanied by armed police personnel.

A three-tier security is in place at Madurai Medical College. District Election Officer and Collector M.S. Sangeetha, General Observer for Madurai Constituency Rajesh Kumar Yadav and Commissioner of Police J. Loganathan inspected the strong rooms and the security arrangements at the counting centre.