Business Standard
The Union Home Ministry on Wednesday ordered the deployment of 150 additional companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and state armed police battalions in West Bengal to ensure free and fair Assembly elections, an official communication said. With this, the total deployment has been increased from around 2,400 companies to 2,550, according to sources. Earlier, 480 companies were deployed, followed by an additional 1,920 companies announced on March 19, with instructions to complete deployment by April 17. The latest deployment includes 95 companies of CAPFs, comprising the CRPF, BSF, CISF and SSB, and 55 companies from state armed police forces drawn from Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, the communication said. The forces are to be inducted by April 18, it added. A senior EC official said the move is aimed at strengthening security arrangements across sensitive constituencies. "The Commission has assessed the ground situation and dec
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