Delegates from 22 countries laud India's poll process

NEW DELHI The polls successful Kerala, Assam and Puducherry - which recorded awesome turnouts, including an all-time precocious for 2 of the 3 states/UT - person drawn planetary attraction with 38 planetary delegates from 22 countries who witnessed them firsthand, voicing their admiration for the precocious elector participation, meticulous readying and seamless execution of the elections. The delegates were present arsenic portion of Election Commission's International Election Visitors' Programme (IEVP) 2026. Describing their acquisition arsenic "a existent festival of democracy," delegate Branimir Farkas from Croatia said the elections were "a immense process done right". Paulus Shigwedha from Namibia said: "We are precise impressed with however the polling stations person been organised and prepared "very well, with wheelchair and creche facilities." The delegates visited district-level media monitoring centres and applauded the continuous oversight of the polls done webcasting. They besides participated successful plantation drives astatine polling stations, showcasing eco-friendly and sustainable predetermination practices. "One of the large things astir India is the usage of EVMs... immoderate of the things that we person learnt we volition beryllium capable to instrumentality location and spot however we could instrumentality it...,"

noted Abubakarr Mahmoud Koroma from Sierra Leone. The planetary delegates began their two-day sojourn (April 8-9) to Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry by visiting the dispatch and organisation centres wherever they observed the systematic question of polling parties on with predetermination materials done well-planned logistics and established SOPs. Delegates besides interacted with main electoral officers and authorities constabulary nodal officers of the respective states connected the wide behaviour of elections, arsenic good arsenic information arrangements. They besides visited the CCTV power rooms acceptable up for monitoring the 100% webcasting of polling stations astatine the CEO offices, describing them arsenic a "strong pillar of transparency". tnn