Assembly polls in Maharashtra, Haryana and Arunachal Pradesh to be held after couple of hours. Polling will start at 7 AM in all the three states The Election Commission has made elaborate security arrangements with special focus on Naxal-hit areas in Maharashtra to ensure peaceful polling, The EC has deployed as many as 18,000 central police forces in Maharashtra alone .<br/><br/>A total of 7,58,11,245 electorate, comprising 3,60,76,469 females, are eligible to exercise their franchise this year. Among them 80.35 percent have photo identity cards. The number of electorates has been increased by more than one crore as compared to previous assembly elections. State Electoral Officer Debashish Chakravarty said that preparations at all the 84,136 polling stations have been put in place to ensure a free, fair and incident-free voting. DGP Elections A. N. Roy said that security is especially tight in the naxalite-affected districts of Gadchiroli, Chandrapur, Gondia and Bhandara, with additional forces having been deployed in Gadchiroli district. The fate of 3,559 candidates including Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, deputy Chief minister Chhagan Bhujbal and 37 other ministers will be decided in today's poll.<br/><br/>In Arunachal Pradesh, tight security arrangements have been put into place to ensure peaceful polling. All the polling personnel have reached their designated locations including those in the far flung and interior areas. The administration has also banned movement of private vehicles in Itanagar, Capital Complex, Tirap and Changlang areas. Election for 57 assembly seats will be held in 2005 polling booths<br/><br/>In Haryana, about 6500 police personnel including 60 Companies of Central para-military forces have been deployed to ensure free and fair polls. Out of 13500 polling stations, 2517 have been declared sensitive and 2262 hyper-sensitive.<br/><br/>