The first phase of the Jharkhand assembly election is scheduled to be held on Saturday in a Maoist stronghold. Special vigilance is being taken regarding this. Two special IGs are commanding security in the elections to the 13 seats of the first phase. Among these, IG Headquarters Vipul Shukla has been posted in Palamu and IG Operation cum Inter State Police Coordination Committee, Jharkhand Police Nodal Officer Saket Singh in Latehar area. Both officers are frozen in their respective areas.
At the same time, 140 company additional armed forces and two thousand home guards have been deployed in the six districts of the state, Garhwa, Palamu, Latehar, Gumla and Chatra in the first phase elections. These soldiers are posted on their respective clusters. These forces include 90 Company Para-military Forces and 47 Eco Company of Jharkhand Police. Apart from this, 2370 Home Guards have also been deployed in all the six districts.
The external forces deployed in all the six districts are Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Odisha Police, Maharashtra Police, Meghalaya Police, Sikkim Police, Railway Protection Force (RPF), Bihar Police, Tripura Police, Indo-Tibet Border Police (ITBP), Chhattisgarh Police, Andhra Pradesh Police and Madhya Pradesh Police are involved.
