Jammu and Kashmir will be mobilizing large number of companies of police from different battalions for smooth conduct of Parliamentary elections in the Union Territory being held in five phases beginning April 19 in addition to the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) being deputed by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
Official sources told that additional CAPFs will be deployed in the entire Kashmir valley and twin border districts of Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu region for sanitization operations and strengthening Anti-Militancy Grid to ensure that the militants don’t manage to carry out any strikes to vitiate political atmosphere in the Union Territory prior to or during the Lok Sabha elections.
“As usual entire Kashmir valley will get top priority as far as security is concerned.
However, equally important are the border districts of Rajouri and Poonch whose most of the Assembly constituencies fall in Anantnag-Poonch-Rajouri (APS) Parliamentary seat,’’ the sources said, adding though there has been no major terror incident in the two districts this year so far, last year witnessed deadliest strikes by the terrorists against security forces in which 20 Army bravehearts sacrificed their lives while a large number of terrorists were killed.
