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Bengal elections: Babul Supriyo (right) will take on sitting MLA Arup Biswas at Tollygunge.
Kolkata:
More than one crore people in five districts of Bengal will decide what the next five years will look like for Union Minister Babul Supriyo, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s lieutenant Partha Chatterjee and others, as the fourth phase of polling for the highly charged state elections takes place today.
More than 370 candidates, including movie stars, MPs and even a cricketer, are on the ticket in 44 constituencies spread over Cooch Behar and Alipurduar districts in north Bengal and parts of South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Hoogly in the state s south.
West Bengal Election 2021: Vote In Record Numbers : PM, Mamata Banerjee Amid Phase-4 Bengal Polling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also made an appeal on Twitter to the eligible voters to come out in large numbers.
Updated: April 10, 2021 8:23 am IST I would especially request the youth and women to vote in large numbers, PM Modi tweeted. (File photo)
New Delhi:
Minutes after polling began for West Bengal state polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an appeal to eligible voters to step out and exercise their democratic right. Polling began at 7 AM for the 44 seats in the state as part of phase 4 of the eight-phased assembly elections.
PM Modi urges people to vote in record numbers
As the 4th phase of the West Bengal elections begin, urging the people voting today to do so in record numbers. I w… https://t.co/2VSBll0xSU— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) 1618018619000
07:11 (IST) Apr 10
People queue up at a polling station in Domjur Assembly constituency in Howrah to exercise their franchise in the fourth phase of elections.
07:04 (IST) Apr 10
57% of voters in my constituency are women and I am banking on them. I appeal to people to come to polling stations and cast votes. Security forces are deployed. I think everything will go very peacefully today
Incomplete metro line, bad roads, monsoon woes plague Behala residents
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Behala has traditionally been a Left Front stronghold but now it has presence only in some pockets. However, in both east and west seats, people are plagued with bad roads due to incomplete and interrupted Metro work, Majerhat bridge collapse, water-logging, open drains and sewage issues.
Bad roads, incomplete metro work, sewage issues and flooded neighbourhoods every monsoon have marred the lives of Behala residents in the last five years. Behala East and West along with nine other constituencies of South 24 Parganas will go to polls on April 10 in the fourth phase.