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| State to seek additional forces from centre for civic poll duty | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Sept 2: The state Government plans to seek additional companies of paramilitary forces from the union Home Ministry for upgrading the security grid in case the Government give its final nod to the scheme of holding the civic elections in Jammu and Kashmir by December 2012.
Official sources said that though the state had sufficient security forces but there was need for deploying additional companies of paramilitary forces for ensuring incident free and peaceful civic elections.
The sources said since militants were trying to regroup for the purpose of hiking the level of violence and agencies across the LOC were giving required assistance to militants in sneaking into Jammu and Kashmir the existing police battalions and those belonging to the CRPF were needed for counter insurgency operations leaving a very small police force available for poll duty.
According to these sources, as the polling for the municipal committees, corporations and block development council is likely to be held somewhere in December, when major areas of the state could be lashed by rain, snow and icy winds, the elections cannot be a multi-phased affair. The Government has to finish the exercise within a short period and for which it needs additional companies of paramilitary forces.
Since several hundred polling booths were to be set up for the election to the two corporations, and a bigger number for the local bodies poll the Government needs a large posse of security forces for maintaining law and order and that too when the separatists were planning to disrupt the election by forcing people to respond to their call for poll boycott.
Separatists had given poll boycott calls during the previous Assembly and Panchayat elections but their call evoked poor response from the voters as the polling percentage even in the Kashmir valley was poor.
Hence these separatist s were planning to execute their scheme in such a way as would create scare among people forcing them to s ay away from the polling booths.
To meet any eventuality the Government has plans to upgrade the security grid which could prevent militants and separatists from disrupting the civic elections. |
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