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CRPF deployed

By Anjali Mody

NEW DELHI DEC. 10. Over one and a half lakh jawans of the Central Reserve Police Force have been deployed in Gujarat in preparation for Thursday's Assembly elections. The Home Ministry, making this announcement, said the CRPF Inspector-General in charge of Operation, K.T.D. Singh, had been nominated as the Forces co-ordinator for the elections. Totalling 163 companies, the Central force is spread across the State, with the largest number — 31 companies — deputed to Ahmedabad district, which saw some of the worst communal violence. Nineteen Companies of the CRPF have been deployed in Vadodara, 13 each in Rajkot and Surat and 10 in Anand.

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