Nagpur: Around 5,000 policemen have been deployed across various parts of the city for the civic polls on Tuesday.
According to NMC commissioner Srawan Hardikar, the voting will take place at 2,783 polling booths, out which 54 have been identified as “sensitive booths”. Armed security personnel will be deployed at 162 polling booths across the city. The election is for 151 seats across 38 wards.
An NMC press release said, “Nine Deputy Commissioner of Police, 12 Assistant Commissioner of Police, 32 police inspectors, 125 police sub-inspectors and ten platoons of the ‘striking force’ State Reserve Police force will be involved in the security arrangements.”
Four Riot Control teams of police and one company of SRPF have been kept as “reserve.”
The police have confiscated 124 weapons and asked the owners of 195 weapons to submit them to the police.
The vehicle of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari was surrounded by some angry protestors in East Nagpur area on Monday evening. The protestors reportedly belonged to Halba community, which is unhappy with the BJP for not keeping its promise of providing caste certificates. The Minister was escorted to his home safely.
