Day before Chhattisgarh polls, Naxal attack kills BSF jawan

Raipur: Nearly one lakh security personnel have been deployed in the Naxal-affected districts which are going to polls in the first phase in Chhattisgarh on Monday, amid the threat from Maoists who have called for a boycott of the elections.

On the eve of the polls, a BSF sub-inspector lost his life when Naxals detonated an IED in Kanker district while a Maoist was gunned down in an encounter in Bijapur district.

Voting will be held on Monday in 18 seats spread over eight Naxal-affected districts in the state.

Naxal outfits have given calls for boycott of the election and executed over half-a-dozen attacks in the last 15 days, three of them major ones which left 13 people dead including a Doordarshan cameraman.