The Election Commission on Friday urged the parties to help security agencies control anti-election activities by providing them with information about the movements and events of the groups working to disrupt the polls.

“The political parties participating in the elections have their presence in all the wards. Their cadres may not know about the plans of the anti-poll elements but they can definitely trace their movements,” Election Commissioner Sudhir Shah told journalists on Friday.

Emerging from a meeting of the High Level Election Security Committee that he heads, Shah said the issue had been discussed.

Stating that the parties also have the responsibility to ensure that elections are held peacefully, Shah said they should not only complain that the security agencies have failed to maintain law and order.

Amid complaints about the government’s inaction in the face of growing number of violent activities, Shah defended the existing security measures.