Lok Sabha elections 2019 | 5th phase poll: Tight vigil in two Lucknow seats

On May 6 Massive force deployment to help ensure free and fair elections in Lucknow and Mohanlalganj constituencies

Lok Sabha constituencies of Lucknow and Mohanlalganj will be transformed into fortresses on Monday, when polling for the fifth phase of the ongoing general elections takes place.

Around 25,000 officials and personnel of the civil as well as the armed police and auxiliary forces would be deployed to ensure fair and peaceful polls, said SSP Lucknow, Kalanidhi Naithani, on Saturday.

Sharing details about the polling day deployment, the senior superintendent of police said that watertight security would be ensured at all the 1,451 polling centres and 3,561 booths across the Lucknow district, which comprised five assembly segments of the Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency and four assembly segments of the Mohanlalganj Lok Sabha constituency.

Shedding light on the police deployment, Naithani said, “As many as 8,131 officials and personnel of the civil police will be deployed in different places. This will include 5,000 constables, 1,500 head constables, 1,500 subinspectors, 96 inspectors and 36 deputy superintendents of police. In addition, nine SPs will be on duty to supervise the force deployment and the law and order situation in the nine assembly segments.”

Highlighting how the other forces would help fortify the constituencies, the SSP said that over 8,000 officials and personnel of the armed police force would be on duty.

“It will include 1,300 S-Is, 4,000 constables, four companies of the UP PAC and 22 companies of the central paramilitary forces. Besides, an auxiliary force of 8,500 home-guards will also be deployed for assisting the police at the booths and the centres,” he said.

Tight vigil will be maintained at the 174 polling centres classified as ‘vulnerable’ and the 280 booths categorised as ‘critical’.

Besides, special mobile teams will keep moving around the constituencies.

“Nine super zonal mobile teams will oversee the law and order situation in the nine assembly segments. These will be assisted by 45 zonal police mobile teams -- five each in every assembly segment. In addition, 222 sector police mobile teams and 200 police cluster mobile teams will ensure that no political party gets to influence voters,” said Naithani.

To keep a check on suspicious vehicular movement, especially for curbing transfer of cash or any other material intended to influence voters, 27 static surveillance teams will keep a strict watch.

“These 27 surveillance teams will also maintain video vigil across the district,” said the SSP.

He said that the entire force to be deployed on the polling day had been apprised in detail about their duties during a combined briefing organised at the reserve police lines on Saturday.

First Published: May 05, 2019 14:30 IST