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India: Polling for Bengal Assembly Elections 2021 have begun

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KOLKATA, 1 April, 2021 (TON): The second phase of the West Bengal assembly elections amid tight security have started.

The polls including the high-profile Nandigram seat, started at 7 in the morning on Thursday.

However, incidents of violence were reported in some areas as house of a TMC booth agent was allegedly ransacked, another was ‘forced to return home’, a Trinamool worked was reportedly hacked to death in West Midnapore and polling agents were heckled in booth number 14 of Nandigram.

The Election Commission has declared all the 10,620 polling booths as sensitive and deployed around 651 companies of central forces, apart from the state police, to provide security. A total of 210 companies of central armed police forces have been deployed in Paschim Medinipur, 199 in Purba Medinipur, 170 in South 24 Parganas and 72 in Bankura,

Voting is underway with strict adherence to Covid-19 protocols in nine seats each in Purba and Paschim Medinipur districts, eight in Bankura and four in South 24 Parganas.

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