Bangalore, Apr 14 (PTI) A total of 11,424 polling stations
have been declared hypersensitive for the April 17 Lok Sabha
elections in Karnataka, for which about 60,000 security
personnel will be deployed.
"Total number of polling stations in the state is 54,264,
of which the number of hypersensitive polling stations is
11,424, number of sensitive polling stations are 14,968, rest
are all normal polling stations," Karnataka Chief Electoral
Anil Kumar Jha told reporters here.
He said 2.95 lakh polling personnel would be deployed.
"Other than this, uniformed personnel for security
purpose that we are going to deploy is about 60,000 that will
include civil police, armed police, home guard and central
paramilitary forces," he added.
He said 15,183 vehicles had been deployed to transport
polling staff and about 5,000 vehicles for sector officials
and other purposes including supervision. This does not
include vehicles used by police personnel for security
purposes.
Jha also pointed out that all types of surveys or opinion
polls by the electronic media will be banned after 6 PM
tomorrow, when the campaign ends.
Advising electronic media not to conduct panel discussions
after 6 PM tomorrow, he said "there may be chances of
violation of rules during panel discussions; there are chances
that discussion may be interpreted by complainant and they may
complain that it affects certain party or a candidate."
He also said "according to the provisions of
Representation of Peoples Act paid holidays should be given by
all public and private establishments to its workers on the
polling day to facilitate voting. It is responsibility of all
establishments and institutions. PTI KSU
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