ISLAMABAD: India is deploying more than 400 companies of paramilitaryforces to thrust polls on the Kashmiri people at a time when allpro-freedom and pro-India local political parties have already announced tostay away from the election drama.-
This was disclosed by Chief Secretary of occupied Kashmir BVR Subrahmanyamduring his maiden interaction with media in Srinagar. He said“unprecedented” arrangements are in place to ensure the four-phase pollsstarting October 8, KMS reported.
“Security arrangements have been done at unprecedented scale. 400 companiesof paramilitary forces will be deployed for these polls in addition to whatwe already have in the form of police and other paramilitary forces,” BVRSubrahmanyam said while addressing the press conference. “This is more thanadequate to conduct the elections,” he added.
The Chief Secretary said that the authorities would provide security to allthe candidates who request for it and facilitate their campaigning as well.“We have arranged accommodation for the candidates who want it at variousplaces across the valley,” Subrahmanyam said.
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Political experts have termed the mobilization of paramilitary forces onsuch a large scale as a part of Indian plan to thrust the election drama onthe Kashmiri people at a time when even two major pro-India local politicalparties have announced to boycott it, while resistance leadership hasalready asked people to stay away from poll drama being enacted by India inthe name of Panchayat and local bodies’ elections in the occupied territory.