New Delhi, Nov 28: Nearly 19,500 personnel from Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) would assist the state police in the conduct of the free and fair polls in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi on December 01. While 65 companies have been deployed in various districts of Chhattisgarh, 55 companies in Madhya Pradesh and ten companies in Delhi have been put in place.

Besides five companies each have been kept reserve for Chhattisgarh and Delhi, a CRPF release said today.

K T D Singh, IGP (Operations) CRPF has been nominated by the Union Home Ministry as force coordinator at Delhi for Central Paramilitary Forces and the state armed police. Bureau Report