With one lakh security personnel deployed to look after law and order, polling for the crucial third phase of West Bengal Assembly election began today at 7 AM.
Polling will be held for 62 seats, including seven constituencies in Kolkata. Altogether 418 candidates, including 34 female, are in the fray in the 62 seats spread over Murshidabad, Nadia, Burdwan districts and north Kolkata.
Over 1.37 crore voters, including 65.8 lakh females, are registered in the electoral rolls at these constituencies. Voting began at 7 AM in 16,461 polling stations and will go on till 6 PM.
Key candidates whose fate will be sealed today include Trinamool ministers Shashi Panja and Sadhan Pande, BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha, five-time Congress MLA Md Sohrab, CPI-M MLA Anisur Rahman and retired IPS officer Nazrul Islam.
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