Police geared up for peaceful conduct of first phase of gram panchayat elections

Around 782 police personnel have been deployed to ensure peaceful conduct of the first phase of gram panchayat elections to be held in five mandals of Karimnagar district on Thursday.

Tight security arrangements have been made at 858 polling stations spanning 91 gram panchayats in Choppadandi, Gangadhara, Ramadugu, Kothapalli and Karimnagar rural mandals where the gram panchayat elections will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Thursday. This will be followed by vote counting scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.

Striking force teams and mobile parties will also be deployed during the elections to prevent untoward incidents and ensure smooth conduct of the polls with a focus on sensitive polling booths, police said.