Fourth phase of Assembly polls in West Bengal tomorrow

May 2nd, 2011 - 9:53 pm ICT by ANI  

Kolkata, May 2 (ANI): Over 1.26 crore electorates will decide the fate of 366 candidates in the fourth phase of West Bengal Assembly polls to be held tomorrow.

Voting will take place in 63 seats covering Howrah Hooghly, East Midhnapure and parts of Burdwan districts.

Prominent candidates, whose fate would be decided in this phase, include Industry Minister Nirupam Sen and Higher Education Minister Sudarshan Roy Chowdhury,Food Processing Minister Mohanta Chatterjee, Minister of State for Information and Culture Soumendranath Bera, Technical Education Minister Chakradhar Maikap, Agriculture minister Naren Dey and Fire Services Minister Pratim Chatterjee.

Tight security arrangements have been made in all the districts to ensure free, fair and peaceful election.

Altogether 20,000 EVMs will be used in all polling stations.

Altogether 15,711 polling booths have been set up in four districts. Besides one special observer 42 general, nine expenditure and four police observers are constantly monitoring the poll process.

Of the six phased elections in West Bengal, three have been completed on April 18, 23 and 27.The fourth phase will take place on May 3, the fifth on May 7 and sixth on May 10. (ANI)

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