A total 78.3 percent turnout has been recorded on Wednesday in the third phase of the West Bengal assembly elections in 75 constituencies in three districts.The polling percentage might rise as reports from remote areas of South and North 24 Parganas districts were still awaited, the state's chief electoral officer Sunil Gupta told reporters in Kolkata.He said polling was 82.6 per cent in South 24 Parganas district, 80 per cent in North 24 Parganas districts, while Kolkata (south) registered 63.5 per cent and Kolkata (north) 61.6 per cent.
Barring for some stray incidents ,the polling was by and large peaceful, Gupta said.Prominent candidates in the fray include Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta, Leader of the Opposition Partha Chaterjee, Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee and former FICCI secretary general Amit Mitra.
Reports from North 24 Parganas, quoting the police, said the CPI(M) office at Bijpur was ransacked by supporters of a rival political party.Police said a CPI(M) polling agent was injured in an attack outside a booth at Bijpur.A powerful bomb was recovered from a garden near a booth in Barasat in North 24 Parganas. It was defused by the police.One person was arrested from Panihati for false voting and another from Jagaddal for causing disturbance, the reports said.Police said two elderly women died of sunstroke when they went to cast their vote at Kultali and Canning in South 24-Parganas district
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Barring for some stray incidents ,the polling was by and large peaceful, Gupta said.Prominent candidates in the fray include Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta, Leader of the Opposition Partha Chaterjee, Kolkata Mayor Sovan Chatterjee and former FICCI secretary general Amit Mitra.
Reports from North 24 Parganas, quoting the police, said the CPI(M) office at Bijpur was ransacked by supporters of a rival political party.Police said a CPI(M) polling agent was injured in an attack outside a booth at Bijpur.A powerful bomb was recovered from a garden near a booth in Barasat in North 24 Parganas. It was defused by the police.One person was arrested from Panihati for false voting and another from Jagaddal for causing disturbance, the reports said.Police said two elderly women died of sunstroke when they went to cast their vote at Kultali and Canning in South 24-Parganas district
Courtesy : DDN
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