Jammu Tawi, Feb. 19 -- Nearly 700 companies of security forces are to be deployed in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh for the smooth conduct of Lok Sabha polls scheduled for April-May this year in the country.

Official sources said that after West Bengal (920 companies), the highest number of companies of paramilitary forces will be deployed in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.

"As many as 635 companies of paramilitary troops shall be deployed in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and 57 will be deployed in the Union Territory of Ladakh for the successful and smooth conduct of the Lok Sabha elections," they said.

Post-elections, sources said that one company will remain stationed in Jammu a...