Polling today for 61 Assam seats, 31 in West Bengal

Voting will be held on Monday for the remaining 61 Assembly constituencies in Assam with the Congress, BJP-AGP-BPF alliance and AIUDF locked in a keen contest while 31 seats in West Bengal will also go to polls in the second part of the first phase of election in the state.

525 candidates are in the fray in this second and final round of voting in Assam. The constituencies, spread across lower and central Assam, will have 12,699 polling stations where 1,04,35,271 people will be eligible to exercise their franchise.

With over 50,000 polling personnel deployed for the second phase, security has been tightened across the constituencies, particularly those in four Bodoland Territorial Area districts where NDFB(S) ultras are active and in Goalpara district which witnessed a bomb blast recently.

Strict vigil is being maintained in Dhubri district bordering Bangladesh and Baksa sharing border with Bhutan.

Altogether 163 candidates, including 21 women, are in the fray in 31 seats of West Midnapore, Bankura and Burdwan districts in West Bengal with 70 lakh people eligible to exercise their franchise.