Dhaka, Feb. 7 -- Nearly one million members from the armed forces and different law enforcement agencies will officially be deployed across the country for seven days from Sunday to maintain law and order as well as contain violation of electoral code of conduct in the referendum and parliamentary elections scheduled for February 12.

Besides, 1,051 executive magistrates are being deployed throughout the country for the seven days from February 8 to 14 to prevent and punish the violation of the election code.

A total of 970,948 security persons are supposed to be deployed from Sunday for the election duty, according to the statistics of the Election Commission.

The security personnel include 100,003 Army personnel, 5000 Navy personnel, ...