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More security for candidates in naxal-hit areas

Lucknow: All candidates contesting from naxal-infested areas in the coming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will be provided additional security in view of the killing of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha MP Sunil Mahto in Jharkhand.

Alarmed at increasing naxal activities in the State and approaching Assembly elections, the Director-General of Police held a meeting with top police officials on Monday in which it was decided to provide security to all the candidates, irrespective of their parties, officials said here on Tuesday.

The candidates would be provided four securitymen, one having carbine and three having SLRs, they said, adding this would be an additional security cover besides routine security arrangements. At the meeting it was decided that extra vigil should be maintained in naxal-infested Sonebhadra, Mirzapur and Chandauli districts. All these districts would go to polls on May 3.PTI

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