Central forces to man over 92% booths in 3rd phase polls in Bengal


Kolkata, Apr 20 (IANS): Central forces are being deployed to man more than 92 per cent of the polling stations in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal due on April 23, an official said on Saturday.

"Over 92 per cent of the booths will be covered by Central forces for the third phase of elections while state armed police force will be deployed in rest of the booths," said Additional Chief Electoral Officer Sanjay Basu.

Voters in five constituencies -- Malda North, Malda South, Jangipur, Murshidabad and Balurghat -- will cast their votes in the third phase.

On Friday, Ajay V. Nayak, Special Observer appointed by the Election Commission, had said that 90 per cent of all the polling booths would be covered by the Central forces from the third phase onwards.

According to Nayak, around 50 per cent booths were manned by the Central forces in the first phase and the number was increased to almost 80 per cent in the second phase.

Basu said about 6,993 complaints across districts have been lodged in the commission's portals and more than 70 of them are yet to be disposed of.

The poll panel received over 6,759 complaints through its cVigil app and 42 of them are in the phase of processing, he said.

About 12.14 lakh litre of liquor and over Rs 28.68 crore of unaccounted cash have been seized till Saturday, he added.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Central forces to man over 92% booths in 3rd phase polls in Bengal



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.