The YSR Congress has requested the Chief Electoral Officer of the State to deploy additional central forces and install closed circuit cameras in the hyper-sensitive areas of Kadapa district.
In a representation given to CEO Bhanwarlal on Thursday, general secretary of the party K. Shiva Kumar said their party had identified some hyper-sensitive polling stations in the district and stressed for deployment of adequate central forces keeping in view the poll-related incidents in the past.
The party explained to the CEO that 97 polling stations in Badvel, Rajampet, Railway Kodur, Pulivendula, Kamalapuram, Jammalamadugu, Proddatur, Mydukur and Rayachoti assembly constituencies were under the influence of TDP leaders, some of whom were former legislators and contestants now with criminal antecedents.
Leaders of the TDP there were openly threatening to capture those polling stations which were located in the areas under their control, Mr. Shiva Kumar alleged.
Past experience in those areas make it amply clear that those TDP leaders would never allow the presence of polling agents of other parties in those polling stations.
Such anti-social elements would not allow the polling process to take place as prescribed by the Election Commission and it would become mockery of the electoral system and democracy, the YSR Congress leader said.
The party requested the CEO to permit the YSRC candidates to appoint people of neighbouring villages as their polling agents to ensure free and fair polling.
