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Paramilitary, TSP to be deployed at polling booths

Staff Reporter

`Additional checkposts to be set up on interstate borders'

Krishnagiri: Ten companies of paramilitary forces and Tamil Nadu Special Police (TSP) will be deployed for security at the polling stations in Krishnagiri district.

About five paramilitary personnel each armed with automatic weapons will be deployed at 85 sensitive polling stations in the district. Along with this, 20 striking force parties would also be stationed at all the Assembly segments, said the Collector, Mangat Ram Sharma, here on Wednesday.

Additional check-posts would be set up on the interstate borders with Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh during elections. Police and officials were regularly inspecting villages on the border areas. A total of 5,491 personnel, including 200 Central Government staff, will be pressed into service for election duty. Identity cards would be issued to all the staff, he said.

The returning officers for the five Assembly constituencies in Krishnagiri district are as follows: Sub-Collector (Hosur), Assistant Commissioner, Excise (Thally), District Backward Classes Officer (Bargur), District Adi-dravidar Welfare Officer (Kaveripattinam) and Revenue Divisional Officer (Krishnagiri). Nominations can be filed from April 13 to 20 between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Scrutiny of nominations would be taken up on April 21 and the last date for withdrawal of nominations was April 24. Recognised candidates must bring a letter of authority from the party headquarters before April 20. The final list of candidates would be prepared by April 24 and election symbols would be allotted to them, he said.

The Krishnagiri district authorities had registered 19 cases against political parties for violation of model code of conduct, especially with regard to wall paintings and poll graffiti's under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Public Places Disfigurement Act, 1959.

Seven cases were registered against the DMK followed by four cases against the AIADMK, six cases against the Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) and one each against the PMK and MDMK.

The Collector said that pamphlets, hoardings, banners, cut-outs or any form of advertisement by political parties would not be allowed on private buildings even with the consent of the owner. Such forms of advertisements had been banned on public buildings too. But in rural areas, pamphlets would be allowed, he added.

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