East Godavari district prepares for panchayat elections
East Godavari Superintendent of Police Adnan Nayeem Asmi on Sunday took stock of the preparedness and deployment of security forces in gram panchayats affected by Left-Wing Extremist activities in Chintoor Agency in East Godavari district along the Andhra Pradesh-Chhattisgarh border.
It may be recalled that the State police recently conducted a strategic meeting with their counterparts in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh and Malkangiri district in Odisha, seeking support for conducting the gram panchayat elections peacefully.
Mr. Nayeem Asmi told
The Hindu that eight CRPF companies would be roped in for the elections in the 78 LWE-affected panchayats in East Godavari Agency.