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'No information of threat to Advani's yatra'

RANCHI, APRIL 4. The Jharkhand Government today said though it has got some `hints' about extremists calling a poll boycott in the state, no information has been received about the ultras' reported move to obstruct the Deputy Prime Minister L. K. Advani's `Bharat Uday Yatra'.

``Though we have not received any such poll boycott call in writing, we are getting hints about it,'' State Home Secretary, J. B. Tubid, told PTI here.

``Generally they release chits (messages on small papers) to spread the information,'' Tubid said without elaborating whether the administration had come across any such chits.

Asked whether they have received any intelligence report about the Naxalites' reported threat to obstruct Deputy Prime Minister, L. K. Advani's `Bharat Uday Yatra' on April 8 and 9, Tubid said the government had no such information.

He, however, said security would be tightened during Advani's visit. Advani is scheduled to address public meetings at Barhi, Gumla, Ramgarh, Hazaribag and Ranchi during his stay in Jharkhand.

The proscribed groups of the People's War and the MCC, who rejected the government's repeated offer for dialogue due to its unconditional nature, had also called a poll boycott in last elections but the electorate rejected their diktat.

Fourteen out of 22 districts in the state were Naxal-infested and the administration identified 458 out of 1186 booths in Hazaribag as being under Naxal areas, official sources said.

The final figure of such booths in rest of the Lok Sabha constituencies would be available within a day or two, an Election Commission official said.

The Centre has despatched around 100 companies of para-military forces to conduct free and fair polls in state.

-- PTI

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