Fifty constituencies will go to polls today in the second phase of Assembly polls in three districts of West Bengal, India in which over 93.33 lakh voters would cast ballots to elect representatives from among 293 aspirants.
The three districts, where elections would be held are, Murshidabad having 22 seats, Birbhum 11 and Nadia 17. In all 11,531 polling stations have been set up.
Tight security arrangements have been made in all the three districts to ensure free, fair and peaceful election.
The police sources said about 4,800 security personnel including central para-military personnel have been deployed in the three districts.
The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, and the Union finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, an MP from Murshidabad, and the Trinamool Congress chief, Mamata Banerjee, campaigned in the districts urging voters not to vote for any rebel candidate and utilise the opportunity to oust the Left Front Government.
The main poll plank of Trinamool Congress-Congress combine is for ushering in 'paribartan' (political change) in the state ruled by CPI(M)-led Left Front for the last 34 years.
The chief minister, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, has ridiculed the slogan for change.
The US cables published by WikiLeaks showed that Washington wants the party Trinamool to win.
Source: New Age
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