- The Election Commission has opened for the first time a 24-hour call centre to register poll-related complaints.
- The telephone number will be 1950, the year the election panel was born.
- Chief Election Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi said every poll going state shall have a complaint redressal mechanism based on website and call centre. The telephone number will be toll free.
- Complainants will get to know about the action taken on SMS and from the call centre.