Strong contingents of TSR jawans leave for poll duties in Chhattisgarh and other states

Police sources said that 800 selected jawans and officers from eight battalions of TSR were divided into two battalions led by two commandants with assistant commandants.

Hundred jawans from each battalions of 1st, 3rd, 5th and 10th  battalions of TSR were formed the first battalion for election duties led by commandant H S Darlong and second battalion for election duties are formed  with 400 jawans of TSR’s 8th, 9th, 11th and 12th battalions led by commandant Amarjit Debbarma.

Jawans of these two battalions will also perform election related duties in poll bound four more states of the country.

The TSR were earlier sent to Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Haryana, Nagaland and Mizoram on poll security duties