GHMC elections: Sanitation, distancing norms flouted at polling stations

HYDERABAD: GHMC officials failed to mark circles, which are meant to maintain social distance by voters, at a polling station at Warasiguda in Secunderabad, on Tuesday as part of polling day.
In another polling station at Jangammet, voters stood in lines similar to queues at theatres.
Though Telangana State Election Commission (TSEC) had made marking circles mandatory at every polling station in wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the civic body ignored most of the polling stations.
Another major precautionary measure was providing sanitisers. Though sanitiser bottles were available at polling stations, none of the polling staff were found utilising them for the voters, before they entered the voting compartment. Even GHMC sanitation staff did not insist the voters use it.
A few voters also carried sanitisers along with them, but police did not allow the sanitisers inside the polling station.