Hyderabad, May 28 : Andhra Pradesh Government has tightened security ahead of Thursdays’ by-elections to four Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly seats.
Over 63,000 policemen, including Armed Reserve Police personnel, have been deployed on election duty, Director General of Police (DGP) SSP Yadav told reporters in Hyderabad on Wednesday.
He informed that a total of 965 villages have been identified as hyper-sensitive, 1,683 as sensitive and 1,025 as extremist-affected and inaccessible villages out of the
4,965 villages in the constituencies going to polls.