In an unprecedented move, the Election Commission of India has sought an unprecedented 74,000 paramilitary personnel from the Centre for deployment during the bypoll to the Anantnag lok Sabha constituency on May 25.
Sources said the EC has conveyed to the Home Ministry that 740 companies of paramilitary forces should be put at its disposal by 12 May.
The demand seemed unprecedented as the poll body had sought 70,000 paramilitary forces for deployment in the recently concluded Assembly elections in five States, including UP.