Kolkata: Election Commission of India has decided to deploy 580 companies of central forces to cover 100 percent polling booths in West Bengal during fourth phase of elections, a senior official said on Thursday.
"We expect this will enable us to cover as many as 100 percent of the polling stations by central forces," said the Election Commission official.
The fourth phase on April 29 will see the deployment of over 200 companies more as compared to the number in the third phase.
The EC had deputed central forces at 50 percent of the booths in the second phase of elections on April 18, which was increased to 92 percent in the third phase of polling held on April 23.
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Eight Lok Sabha constituencies in Bengal-Baharampur, Krishnanagar, Ranaghat, Bardhaman Purba, Bardhaman-Durgapur, Asansol, Bolpur and Birbhum will go to polls on Monday in West Bengal.
Special emphasis will be given to Asansol, which shares its border with Bihar, an EC source said.
Meanwhile, the commission served a show cause notice on Wednesday to Trinamool Congress MLA from Chakdah Ratna Ghosh Kar, for making derogatory remarks in reply to a report sought by the EC, he said.
The EC had asked for a report from the District Magistrate of Nadia on April 17, in connection with Ghosh Kar's alleged objectionable remarks about the central forces.
"Her replies to the commission were highly derogatory in nature, and now it (EC) has show caused her," the source said.
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