West Bengal's Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari locked the State Election Commission office in Kolkata from the outside as a symbolic protest against the violence during the Bengal panchayat polls on Saturday.
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.
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