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Election Commission mulls 100 per cent deployment of central forces in Bengal 4th phase polls

Election Commission mulls 100 per cent deployment of central forces in Bengal 4th phase polls

| @indiablooms | 26 Apr 2019, 02:17 pm

Kolkata, Apr 26 (UNI): Citing a voting-related murder of an electorate in the third phase of election, the Election Commission is actively considering 100 per cent deployment of central armed forces to eight Lok Sabha seat during 4th phase polling in West Bengal on April 29, official sources here said on Friday.

Altogether 580 companies of para-military forces is to be deployed on those Lok Sabha segments of Beharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Purba Burdwan, Burdwan-Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur and Birbhum spread over in five districts.

With the increased deployment of central forces in phases from first on April 11, the poll body this time is considering to take no chance for the 4th phase after a voter, Tearul Sheikh, was beaten to death some 100 meters from a Bhogobangola polling booth in Murshidabad.

Around 324 companies of central forces were deployed in the 3rd phase for five seat polling on April 19 when 92 per cent of booths were manned by the central forces.

 

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