About 400 companies of security forces have been deployed to ensure free and fair polls in the first phase of Jammu and Kashmir polls tomorrow.
Of the 15 Assembly seats going to polls tomorrow, 11 segments of Chenab valley and North Kashmir were highly militancy infested areas and some of them still has militant influx.
A total of 10,502,50 voters, including 5,00,539 women, will decide the fate of 12 sitting MLAs, including seven ministers among 123 candidates at 1,900 polling stations in 15 constituencies.
The Assembly segments going to polls tomorrow include Kishtwar, Inderwal, Doda, Bhaderwah, Ramban and Banihal in Jammu division; Gurez, Bandipora, Sonawari, Kangan and Ganderbal in Kashmir) and Nobra, Leh, Kargil and Zanskar in Ladakh region.
"Roughly 400 security companies have been deployed for the first phase of polling in the state to ensure incident free voting tomorrow," a senior police officer said.
The security has been deployed for area domination, guarding polling stations, routes and polling parties, leaders and candidates apart from earlier campaigning.
"There is deployment of para military forces at each and every polling station," Chief Electoral officer (CEO), Umang Narola said.
He said that the paramilitary personnel will conduct area domination, and quick reaction teams have also put in place.
Once a hotbed of militancy, the six assembly constituencies in the three districts carved out from the erstwhile united Doda district in Jammu region, going to polls tomorrow, have been put under elaborate security cover.
