In a bid to review poll preparedness ahead of the first phase of the Assembly polls, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora and Election Commissioners Sushil Chandra and Rajiv Kumar will visit West Bengal on Tuesday.
“A full bench Commission along with senior officials are going to West Bengal tomorrow to review poll preparedness. It is simply routine work,” an Election Commission official told. The first phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls is scheduled to take place on March 27. The elections for 30 assembly seats will be conducted during the first phase. All the assembly constituencies of the districts of Purulia and Jhargram will go for polls in the first phase.
The EC has decided that all the polling stations in Bengal would be manned by central paramilitary forces and the state and city police would be deployed 200 meters away from the polling booths.
Meanwhile, central forces have been deployed throughout West Bengal ahead of the polls. Elections to the 294-member assembly will be held from March 27 to April 29 in eight phases. Results will be declared on May 2.
Earlier, on March 10, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had alleged that she was pushed by a few unidentified people during her election campaigning in Nandigram. West Bengal will witness a tough fight between the ruling TMC and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The state will go to polls on March 27. The polling will continue till April 29.
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