Over 7,000 security personnel have been deployed for the re-polls to the Tripura West Lok Sabha (Lower house of Indian Parliament) seat slated to be held on May 12(today), reports Northeast Today. According to an official, ‘over 7,000 Paramilitary forces and Tripura State Rifles (TSR) troopers have been deployed in and around the 168 polling stations in four Districts’. The Election Commission (EC) had decided to conduct the re-polls in 168 polling stations in 26 Assembly segments as electoral malpractices were found during voting in the first phase of the ongoing general elections on April 11.