Ahead of conducting peaceful and fearless polls, the Director General of Police Rajeev Kumar today took an aerial survey of Giridih constituency which is scheduled on 17 April. Kumar also took an account of inaccessible terrains of the constituency including Churchu, Vishunghar and Madhuban areas.
Neglected from development with closure of industries Giridih is also famous as den of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) rebels. Atrocities of red rebels and its geographic locations hindered development. Recently putting forces on toes naxal rebels pasted dozens of poll boycott Posters in Maoist infested areas of Giridih and Bokaro district. Through the posters naxal given a strong threat to the common people and asked them boycott the poll and join hands with them.
Talking to the media persons Kumar said: “We have planned to ensure peaceful polling. An unprecedented 48,000 security personnel including BSF, Jharkhand police personnel, SISS and CRPF personnel were deployed. Six choppers including Russian Mi-17s and Dhruv helicopters were pushed into service In a meet with SPs at Bokaro, Kumar instructed them to continue to organize long range patrolling (lRPs) and other sanitization exercises to keep the anti-social elements away.