Briefing the press ahead of the third phase of elections on Tuesday on nine Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, CEO Rajan said that a total of 1,433 FIRs had been registered till May 6.

He said that between March 16 and May 6, preventive measures were taken in more than two lakh cases.

He also said that the Election Commission (EC) has so far received 4,43 complaints through the C-VIGIL app during the same period and all of them have been resolved.

The nine Lok Sabha seats for which voting will be held in the third phase on May 7 in the state are Bhopal, Vidisha, Sagar, Betul, Gwalior, Morena, Bhind, Guna and Rajgarh.

A total of 127 candidates are in the fray in the third phase of elections, the maximum (22) in Bhopal and the least (7) in Bhind constituency.

There are more than 1.77 crore voters, out of which 92.68 lakh are males and 84.83 lakh are females and third gender voters are 491 and disabled voters are 1,66,431.

A total of 20,456 polling stations have been set up across nine Lok Sabha seats which will cover 18 districts of the state.

Of them, 5,744 polling stations have been marked as critical and most of them are in the three constituencies of Bhind, Morena and Gwalior.

In the third phase, 2,043 polling stations have been designated as 'Pink Booths', where voting will be conducted by women and disabled employees.

Raja said during a press conference on Monday that more than 5.25 lakh first-time voters (aged 18-19) will exercise their franchise, while there are 1,804 voters who are above 100 years of age.