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DHUBRI: Dhubri Deputy Commissioner Deba Kumar Kalita visited all the polling stations in Bhogdanga and sar areas to take stock of the preparedness to ensure free and fair election.
Bhogdanga and Fauskarkuti are the two Indian revenue villages under Dhubri district, while voters of these villages cast their votes at Bhogdanga Polling Station outside the border fence but within the Indian territory.
The total population is 600, of which 386 are voters (206 male and 180 female voters) and one voter is above 80 years.
Voters of Bhogdanga and Fauskarkuti will exercise their franchise in the third phase of polling on April 6.
In his first leg of inspection, Kalita visited Bhogdanga village located outside the barbed wire fencing along the Indo-Bangladesh Border in Golokganj Assembly constituency of Dhubri district.
He held meeting with the villagers at a primary school and heard their problems particularly restrictions in movements due to a huge iron gate erected by the BSF at the approach road leading to Bhogdanga village.
Villagers in the meeting said that they were cut off from mainland of country living like alien and foreigners as the gate is timely opened and closed twice in a day.
Talking to The Sentinel, Kalita informed that he along with officials engaged in polling duties visited the remotest, critical and vulnerable polling stations located along the Indo-Bangladesh Border villages.
"We are taking all the steps to ensure a free and fair election. In Bhogdanga village, people are facing a lot of problems due to its location outside the barbed wire fencing. But still we are trying to ease out those problems so that the voters can cast their votes in a hurdle-free manner," Kalita added.
The DC was accompanied by District Development Commissioner Banshree Nath, Chief Executive Officer of Dhubri Zila Parishad Animesh Talukdar, Dhubri Election Officer PP Barman and BSF Assistant Commandant Dharam Chandra Sinha.