Campaigning ends in West Bengal

Amit Shah says central forces to be deployed for 60 days after elections

- ARCHIS MOHAN AND PTI

The campaigning for the second and final phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls ended on Monday evening. More than 32 million electors across 142 assembly segments and seven districts will be eligible to cast their vote on Wednesday.

But the fate of 1.29 million electors deleted during the judicial adjudication process of the special intensive revision (SIR) still hung in balance. In the polling for 152 seats in the first phase on April 23, only 139 electors were added to the supplementary electors list out of the 2.7 million deleted during the judicial adjudication process.

Of the 142 seats that go to polls on Wednesday, 111 fall in the Presidency region, the bastion of the Trinamool Congress.

These seats are in the five districts of North 24 Parganas (33), South 24 Parganas (31), Nadia (17), Howrah (16), and Kolkata (11).