In Saturday's violence scarred panchayat polls, people had cast their votes in 61,636 booths for 2.06 lakh candidates who were in the fray for elections to 73,887 seats in the three-tier panchayat system in the state
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Polling booths were ransacked, ballot boxes set on fire or thrown into ponds at different places as people queued up to vote in the significant three-tier panchayat polls.
Mukherjee is a former chief justice of Karnataka High Court and was appointed as the interim VC on Wednesday by Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose, who is its chancellor. The debate on his appointment has reached beyond the university campus.
e Calcutta High Court had earlier ordered deployment of central forces to all polling stations on voting day. The State Election Commission has also directed district authorities to ensure that two armed police personnel one each from central forces and state police be deployed at each booth on polling day on Saturday.