More than 32,000 personnel from the central armed police forces and around 55,000 from the State police are expected to be deployed for the upcoming Gujarat assembly elections, a senior Home Ministry official said.
For the Himachal Pradesh polls on November 9, around 10,000 personnel from central armed police forces and 14,000 from the State police are expected to be deployed.
The official said that deliberations with the Election Commission (EC) on deployment of security forces in these states were still going on.
The EC has not yet announced the date of the Gujarat polls.
