Meanwhile, IG operations and Jharkhand Police Spokesperson AV Homkar informed that all the 15 districts in which the elections were held for 43 Assembly seats in Jharkhand on Wednesday, were Maoist infested and it was big challenge for the police to conduct peaceful polling. “But, the elections were held peacefully without even a single Maoist incident in all 43 Assembly seats in Jharkhand. Out of the total 15, 334 polling booths during the first phase of polling, 2249 were identified as sensitive from Naxal point of view for which huge deployment of forces were done to avoid any untoward situation,” said Homkar. Moreover, Homkar said, there were 286 such booths in Jharkhand which were shadow areas having no mobile or internet connectivity for which special arrangements were done to establish communication with the polling personnel. Looking at the security point of view, polling personnel was heli-dropped on 255 booths a day ahead of the polling on the most sensitive booths, he added. Notably, the fate of 683 candidates in the electoral race will be decided by 13,710,717 voters, including 6,873,455 men, 6,836,959 women, and 303 third-gender voters. Of the 683 candidates, 609 are men, 73 are women, and one belongs to the third gender.
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