Bhubaneswar: Odisha Police seems to have left no stone unturned to ensure free and fair polling to be held for six Lok Sabha and 42 Assembly seats in Odisha on May 25.
DGP Arun Kumar Sarangi at a presser said, “A total of 35,000 state police and paramilitary security personnel will be deployed to keep the violence at bay during the polling to be held under 12 police districts of Sambalpur, Deogarh, Angul, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Cuttack UPD, Nayagada, Puri, Khordha and Bhubaneswar UPD.
Polling will be held in 10, 551 booths located in 7,646 locations among which around 20 per cent of booths are reportedly sensitive booths, sources said.
“As many as 121 companies of Paramilitary Forces, 106 platoons of Odisha Armed Police and 19,865 civil police forces have been deployed for free and fair elections in Odisha. As many as 43 Additional SPs, 95 DSPs, 238 inspectors, 2160 SIs, 10, 212 armed and unarmed Constables and Havildars, 7,117 Home Guards and Grama Rakhis will be deployed for the safe polling,” informed the DGP.
Five young IPS officers of ASP rank in Sambalpur, Khordha, Keonjhar and Cuttack have been mobilized at sensitive booths. A total of 84 DSPs, two each for one assembly segment, have been deployed to maintain law and order. We have divided 42 Assembly segments into 231 sectors. We have also deployed either one or a half section of CAPF in each sensitive booth.
