AGARTALA, April 22 (TIWN): DGP A K Sukla on Monday has urged voters of East Tripura constituency to go for voting fearlessly tomorrow.

For any problem erupts, the DGP has asked voters to call 100 or toll free number given in police website of Tripura.

"Central Para-Military Forces (CPMF) and Tripura State Rifles (TSR) troopers would be deployed in over 88 per cent of the 1,645 polling booths in 1,349 locations spread across the Tripura East Lok Sabha seat," Director General of Police (DGP) Akhil Kumar Shukla told the media.

He said that quick reaction teams, mobile and static security squads, among other multi-tier security arrangements have been put in place across six districts.

The police chief said that he himself along with several Inspector Generals and Deputy Inspector Generals as well as a large number of other senior police officials including more than 12 Superintendent of Police and equivalent rank police officials would closely supervise the balloting from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday.

The central forces include the Border Security Force (BSF), the Assam Rifles, the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The TSR is a counter-insurgency force.

According to a senior police official, around 10,000 CPMF and TSR troopers and state police personnel are already posted in the entire mountainous Tripura East Lok Sabha constituency, reserved for the tribals.

Security has been tightened along Tripura's borders with Bangladesh (856 km), Mizoram (109 km) and Assam (53 km) to prevent cross border movement of people during the voting.

An Election Commission official said that the three central police observers -- Nilabh Kishore, K. Jayaraman, Subrata Gangopadhyay and Special Central Police Observer Mrinal Kanti Das -- would also monitor and direct the security forces in any eventuality.

Citing a "non-conducive security situation", following reports by the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Sriram Taranikanti, Special Central Police Observer Mrinal Kanti Das, Returning Officer Vikas Singh and intelligence inputs, the poll panel early last week had deferred voting to the seat from April 18 to April 23.