KOLKATA: Because the high-stakes second section of West Bengal Meeting polls approaches, safety within the 4 constituencies has been ramped up with 800 firms of safety forces deployed to make sure a peaceable election.
Out of the 800 firms deployed all through West Bengal, 22 firms of safety forces have been deployed in Nandigram alone, the place a high-profile contest might be witnessed between incumbent Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former ministerial candidate Suvendu Adhikari.
Out of the 30 seats in South 24 Parganas, Bankura, Purba Medinipur and Paschim Medinipur, Nandigram attaches the very best significance as a result of face-off between Banerjee and Adhikari.
In the meantime, Part 144 has additionally been imposed in Nandigram as a precautionary measure to keep away from any untoward or violent incident through the voting course of.
Other than the deployment of the Central Police Pressure (CPF), the administration has taken non-CPF measures to maintain a examine and tight vigil on actions in and round polling stations.
“4 non-Central Police Pressure measures webcasting, micro observer, CCTV, videography we mapped all this. On each sales space, a minimal of 1 must be there. Whereas on the delicate cubicles, two CPF measures might be deployed,” knowledgeable Smita Pandey, District Justice of the Peace of Purba Medinipur district.
For section two of the elections, there are 3,210 polling stations in 1,937 premises within the district.
“Other than that CPF, there are SFT, SST in place and sufficient firms. They’re doing their confidence-building measures and route in March. They’re cell and in place,” added Pandey.
In section two of the elections, a complete of 30 meeting constituencies from the districts of South 24 Parganas, Bankura, Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur will go to polls.
There are 171 candidates within the fray in phase-II of West Bengal polls, out of which 152 candidates are males whereas solely 19 are girls.
Amongst these candidates, two are undoubtedly essentially the most outstanding figures, that’s, Mamata Banerjee and Suvendu Adhikari, who had joined the BJP in December final 12 months.
Adhikari had earlier pledged that he’ll stop politics if he doesn’t defeat the TMC supremo by 50,000 votes in Nandigram.
After the high-voltage Nandigram contest, it’s the Debra Meeting seat that set the ballot fever excessive for the second section of West Bengal elections. Within the Debra seat, BJP has fielded former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh in opposition to Trinamool Congress’ Humayun Kabir, additionally an ex-IPS officer.
Many standard faces from the leisure business are rising within the second section of polls, with actors Soham Chakraborty and Sayantika Banerjee contesting for Chandipur and Bankura respectively from TMC whereas actor Hiranmoy Chattopadhyay from BJP contesting for the seat in Kharagpur Sadar in Paschim Medinipur.
