EC Tightens Security for Falta Repoll in West Bengal

The Election Commission has nearly doubled the security arrangements for the May 21 repoll in West Bengal's Falta Assembly constituency that was countermanded last month over allegations of large-scale EVM tampering, a senior poll panel official said on Wednesday. 

According to an official at the state Chief Electoral Officer, eight Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel, equivalent



to one full section, will be deployed at each polling booth.

During the April 29 polling that was ultimately countermanded, only four personnel, or half a section, had been stationed at each booth, he added. "The poll panel does not want to leave any room for irregularities this time. Security arrangements have therefore been significantly strengthened," an official of the poll panel told Media.