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Nearly 1 lakh troops of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) are apt to beryllium deployed successful Bihar for ensuring free, just and peaceful Assembly polls successful the State, officials said connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025).
The CAPF unit volition beryllium deployed on with those of the Bihar Police for the two-phased Bihar Assembly polls.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced that the 243-member Bihar Assembly volition spell to polls connected November 6 and 11. The counting of votes volition beryllium taken up connected November 14.
Almost 500 companies of the CAPF person already reached Bihar arsenic portion of the pre-poll deployment. Some much companies, reaching up to 1,200 companies, could beryllium deployed aft a last support from the ECI and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the officials said.
A azygous CAPF institution has an operational spot of astir 70-80 personnel.
The maximum of the CAPF companies for the Bihar polls volition beryllium drawn from the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), followed by different forces similar the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Railway Protection Force (RPF).
Bihar had sought astir 1,800 companies from the ECI for the polls, the officials said.
These units volition beryllium successful summation to the Bihar Police units for providing information during the upcoming Assembly polls, according to the CAPF officials.
