Itanagar, Mar 12: ​The Chief Electoral Officer of Arunachal Pradesh, Pawan Kumar Sain, along with Joint Chief Electoral Officer, Liken Koyu and Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Shania Kayem Mize, convened a routine coordination meeting with representatives of all political parties today at Nirvachan Bhawan, Itanagar. The meeting aimed to interact with political parties and address their unresolved grievances, if any, in accordance with the established law and strengthen electoral processes in the state.
In the meeting, the political parties were made aware of various modifications in the existing process of revision activities such as introduction of four qualifying dates in a year namely, 1st January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st October in place of one qualifying date 1st January. Hence, the citizens who will become eligible with reference to any of the four qualifying dates have been given a facility to file their advance application for registration, during Annual Summary Revision, as well as after the final publication. 
Various other issues were discussed including appointment of Booth Level Agent (BLA) against each polling station to assist Booth Level Officer during revision period. The BLOs usually go through the draft electoral roll with BLAs of recognized political parties of State and identify the corrections, deletion etc. 
There are a total of 2233 polling stations in the state but only 1624 BLAs have been appointed by the political parties. The Party wise breakdown is as follows,  BJP: 1141, INC: 286, NPP: 191 and PPA: 6. It was also informed that BLAs once appointed from a recognized political party will continue as BLA, unless their appointment is rescinded/revoked by the political party concerned. 
Earlier, the CEO had convened a Video Conference with all District Election Officers, Electoral Registration Officers and directed them to hold regular interactions with political parties to receive suggestions and to resolve grievances, if any, within existing legal framework.

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Kenter Joya Riba

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