District Collector Dilip Swami held a meeting with senior police officials on Friday, a day before the counting of votes. In a video message released after the meeting, Swami said, “I spoke to senior police officials in the city as well as rural areas of the district. When the results are known, the situation becomes a little tense. To avoid law and order problems, we will not allow any victory procession on the result day.”

“Sometimes party workers gather and sometimes their gathering turns into a procession. We are also not going to allow that. Later, once everything is peaceful, we will allow processions. We have issued orders of ban accordingly,” he said.

The counting of votes for the legislative elections of November 20 began on Saturday at 8 a.m.