Delhi assembly elections: Over 30,000 police personnel, 220 agencies of paramilitary forces deployed
Delhi is on excessive alert as voting started out for the assembly polls on Wednesday. Over 30,000 police personnel and 220 groups of paramilitary forces had been deployed throughout the national capital to ensure peaceful elections.

The excessive-stakes election sees the aam aadmi party (AAP) aiming for a 3rd consecutive time period, leveraging its governance report and welfare schemes, at the same time as the bjp and congress are searching for a resurgence.

more than 1.fifty six crore citizens are eligible to solid their ballots from 7 am across thirteen,766 polling stations in all 70 meeting constituencies. The outcome will determine the fate of 699 candidates in a competition that might reshape Delhi's political panorama.

nearly 3,000 polling booths had been diagnosed as sensitive, prompting unique security features like drone surveillance, short response groups (QRTs), hanging groups, and the deployment of primary Armed police Forces (CAPF) to preserve regulation and order.

"All delhi police personnel are dedicated to ensuring unfastened, honest, and non violent elections. Pre-poll preparations are in location, and all senior team of workers are at the ground," stated unique Commissioner of police (SPNO delhi assembly Elections) Devesh Chandra Srivastva.

Srivastva exact the deployment, noting that 220 corporations of paramilitary forces include one hundred fifty corporations of CAPF and 70 businesses from 10 distinctive states. moreover, over nine,000 home Guards and all senior delhi cops are on duty.

He showed robust security features across the town, with sixty five border points among delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and haryana sealed and beneath heavy security.

From january 7 to february 3, when the version Code of behavior (MCC) changed into in effect, 1,076 instances of alleged violations had been recorded, and 34,250 human beings were arrested or detained.

"Our teams confiscated 469 unlawful firearms and 513 cartridges, arresting 491 human beings below the palms Act," Srivastva added.

in addition, police seized 1,10,093 litres of liquor, arresting 1,381 people. A strict vigil additionally caused the seizure of 196.602 kg of drugs well worth over Rs 77.9 crore, more than 1,2 hundred banned injections, and the arrest of 177 human beings for drug-associated offenses.
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Sudha Subbiah

05/02/2025 09:24 AM