Preparations underway in West Bengal for final phase of voting tomorrow

Kolkata, May. 4 : Voting will be held for the sixth and final phase of Assembly elections tomorrow in West Bengal where 25 seats including 16 in Purba Medinipur and 9 in Coochbehar districts will go to polls. In all, 67 candidates are in the fray for nine seats in Coochbehar, 12 of them independents. In Purba Medinipur, a total of 103 candidates are vying for 16 seats including 12 independents.In tomorrow’s polling, over 58 lakh voters will decide the political future of 170 candidates who include 18 women. 6 Thousand 774 polling stations have been setup for the purpose.The voters include over nine thousand five hundred new Indian citizens who have been enrolled in five constituencies in Coochbehar for the first time ever. They are the residents of 51 former Indo-Bangladesh enclaves, locally known as Sabeki Chheetmahal. Election Commission has arranged strict security measures for the final day of voting. In all, 361 companies of Central security forces have been deployed in both the districts.
In Purba Medinipur 7 thousand 500 State Police personnel and in Coochbehar 4 thousand 500 Policemen have been deployed to assist the Central forces. Directed by the Commission, the Central forces last night launched search operations at all the vulnerable locations in both the districts.