25 lakh personnel to be deployed for assembly polls: EC

As many as 25 lakh personnel, including 8.5 lakh security personnel, will be deployed for the five assembly polls to be held next month, the Election Commission said on Wednesday.
As many as 17.4 crore electors are eligible to vote in the elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry.
The EC noted that CEC, while announcing the schedule of the elections, had asserted that the officials have been directed to act with complete impartiality to ensure that the elections are violence-free and inducement-free so that each elector votes without fear or favour. The personnel deployed include nearly 15 lakh polling officials, 8.5 lakh security personnel, 40,000 counting personnel, 49,000 micro observers, 21,000 sector officers and 15,000 micro observers for counting, amongst others.
Assembly elections will be held in Assam on a single day on April 9, alongside Kerala and Puducherry, while Tamil Nadu will vote on April 23 and West Bengal will go to the polls in two phases on April 23 and April 29, the Election Commission announced on Sunday.
The counting of votes for all the elections will be on May 4.