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Nepal To Deploy 155,000 Security Personnel For November Elections
News.Xinhuanet.com
September 13, 2013: the government of Nepal is deploying some 155,000 security personnel to ensure high-level security for holding the elections to a Constituent Assembly on November 19, Xinhua quoted Nepalese officials yesterday.
Nepal Police will deploy 50,000 security personnel, while the Armed Police Force will engage 20,000 security personnel, and some 40,000 temporarily hired police will prevent any security lax. Some 45,000 Nepal Army personnel will play a crucial role in the overall security of the electoral booths and polling stations.
On Wednesday, at the meeting with Chairman of Interim Election Council Khil Raj Regmi and Home Minister Madha Prasad Ghimire, the top leaders of four major parties urged both the chairman and the home minister to come up with "firm security plan" for the elections. "We are working hard to conduct the election in a free and fearless manner. The security arrangements are a tool to achieve our target," Xinhua quoted Uddab Bhattarai: a Home Ministry official as saying.
Nepal is holding its second Constituent Assembly elections following the demise of the successfully elected first Constituent Assembly.
