More than 200 members of polling teams who were putting up at various CRPF camps since the completion of polling in the restive Bastar region on April 10 have returned to their respective district headquarters.
A number of polling teams were picked up by the helicopters deployed by the Election Commission in Bastar from the interior parts of the troubled zones during the past nearly 72 hours, official sources here informed.As many as 31 polling staff members were put up in the CRPF camps in Bijapur district and 149 members in Sukma district besides others in Dantewada for nearly 72 hours before they were brought back safely to their respective district headquarters in Bastar.
The polling teams were allowed to leave the camps of security personnel in the jungles after the confirmation of ‘road opening exercise’ carried out by them as a standard procedure. The polling teams left the camps under heavy cover of personnel to their respective district headquarters.
Just a day earlier, the Naxals created bloodbath once again in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region on Saturday in which 14 people including seven polling party members and five CRPF troopers were killed in two deadly blasts. The first blast took place at Ketulnar village in Bijapur district while the second one at Darbhaghati in Jagdalpur district.