Kolkata: As the third part of the high-stakes West Bengal Assembly elections is ready to begin on Tuesday, a complete of 832 firms of central safety forces have been deployed within the constituencies to make sure a peaceable election.
Out of these, 214 firms of Quick Response Teams (QRTs) will probably be current within the third part.
The voting on this part of elections will probably be held in 31 Assembly constituencies in three districts – eight in Hooghly, seven in Howrah and 16 in South 24 Parganas.
There are 205 candidates within the fray on this spherical of polling, with Diamond Harbour having the utmost quantity of candidates at 11.
However, on the subject of girls illustration, there are solely 13 girls candidates contesting on this part, merely six per cent.
A complete of 307 firms have been deployed within the South 24 Parganas, whereas 167 firms have been deployed within the rural areas of the Hooghly district police division.
Furthermore, 144 firms have been deployed within the Howrah district.
In the South 24 Parganas district, which is one of the primary battleground districts within the elections, 130 firms have been deployed in Baruipur Police District, 113 firms have been deployed in Diamond Harbour and the Sunderban Police District homes 64 firms.
A complete of 78,52,425 electors will participate within the third part of the polls. Of these, 2,30,055 individuals will probably be voting for the primary time. A complete of 1,26,148 voters fall within the age group of above 80 years.
The Kulpi constituency has the bottom voters depend with 2,20,600 whereas Jagatballavpur has the very best quantity of electorates at 2,88,099.
Out of the entire quantity of electorates, 39,93,280 are males, 38,58,902 are girls and 243 are of different genders.
There are 8,840 polling stations and a couple of,391 auxiliary polling stations all through the 31 constituencies. There are 10,871 Control Units, VVPATs and Ballot Units individually.
Among essentially the most high-profile candidates, it’s BJP’s Swapan Dasgupta contesting from the Tarakeswar constituency in Hooghly. Dasgupta, a famous journalist and a Padma Bhushan awardee has been a Rajya Sabha member who resigned just lately to contest the West Bengal Assembly polls.
In the Arambagh constituency, TMC has fielded Sujata Mondal Khan towards CPI(M)’s Sakti Mohan Malik and BJP’s Madhusudhan Bag. The attention-grabbing reality is Sujata Mondal Khan is the spouse of BJP MP Saumitra Khan.
Diamond Harbour is the parliamentary constituency of TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
In the 2016 Assembly elections, TMC had bagged 29 seats and the Left Front gained two seats out of these 31 seats, which will probably be going to polls within the third part on Tuesday. Talking about vote share within the final Assembly election, TMC had secured 50 per cent, the Left Front had 37 per cent and the BJP acquired 7 per cent.
Polling for the primary two phases of the West Bengal elections was held on March 27 and April 1 respectively. The fourth part of polling will happen on April 10. The counting of votes will happen on May 2.
