East Singhbhum adminstration is all set for second phase of panchayat polling.
Deputy commissioner Amitabh Kaushaltoday said that a total of 81 booths have been identified as hypersensitive ( 62 in Chakulia, 10 in Dhalbhumgarh and 9 in Baharagora) while 210 booths have been identified as sensitive (81 in Baharagora, 76 in Chakulia and 53 in Dhalbhumgarh).
There are a total of 648 booths in the three blocks of Chakulia, Dhalbhumgarh and Baharagora going to polls tomorrow.
Meanwhile Maoists called for a boycott of panchayat elections by putting up posters at two different places in Jamdole (in Chakulia block) and Shyamsunderpur (near Dhalbhumgarh block) in the wee hours of Friday, a day before the two blocks goes to polls in the second phase.
The posters asked the villagers not to cast their votes in the panchayat polls as it is merely an eyewash by the government.
The posters written in red and bearing CPI-Maoists were found posted at Jamdole bus stand, barely 10 km from bordering Belpahari area of West Midnapore district of Bengal under Chakulia police station and also near Chandanpur Middle School under Shyamsunderpur police station in Dhalbhumgarh block.
Confirming about the pasting of posters, East Singhbhum senior superintendent of police (SSP) Anoop T. Mathew said that posters have been removed by the local police personnel and adequate security arrangement have been undertaken for a peaceful poll.
He said that more than 2000 police jawans from district police, Jharkhand Armed Police and district police would be doing dutytomorrow during the panchayat polls at rebel hit blocks of Dhalbhumgarh, Chakulia and Baharagora blocks.
