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.
Though Trinamool Congress (TMC) blamed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the killing, the Chief Minister alleged Bangladeshi 'miscreant' connection in the incident.
Since the 1970s, however, there is a distinctive nature to this form of violence. “It is different from the class-based Naxalite upheaval in the 1960-70 period. It is also different from the caste-based violence that can be seen in parts of North India,” writes historian Sumanta Banerjee