Security has been ramped up in Tiruchi and elsewhere in the central region in view of counting of votes to be taken up on Monday as police teams are to be deployed at vantage locations with deployment of extra strength at the counting centres. The electronic voting machines have been safely kept inside the strong rooms in each counting centre following completion of polling on April 23.

The total number of counting centres in the central region is 12 of which three are in Thanjavur district and two in Tiruchi district.  In Tiruchi district, the counting centres are at the Jamal Mohamed College in the city, falling under the limits of the Tiruchi City Police and at the OASYS Institute of Technology in Pulivalam which comes under the jurisdiction of the Tiruchi Rural Police.