Kolkata, June 18 (UNI) Over 2,5 lakh voters are expected to exercise their voting right as the Kaliganj assembly seat by-poll is set to be held on June 19. Central armed forces with the assistance of state police have begun taking up position to ensure peaceful polling in some 309 booths in West Bengal's Nadia district, official sources said on Wednesday.
Sources said some 14 companies of Central armed forces will man the designated 209 polling stations spread across 13 panchayat areas under the assembly segment. A total of 2,52,670 voters, including 1,30,363 males and 1,22,303 females, are expected to cast vote between 7 am to 5 pm.
As the campaign ended on Tuesday, poll officials began to move to their designated polling booths where the Central armed forces are already stationed.
The by-election is restricted to a triangular fight among the ruling Trinamool Congress, the main opposition BJP and the Congress-Left combine in this border district.
TMC's candidate Alifa Ahmed, BJP's Ashis Ghosh and Congress' Kabil Uddin Sheikh are staking their claim for the seat which Alifa's father held for a decade.
The by-poll was necessitated by the death of sitting TMC MLA Nasiruddin Ahmed earlier this year.
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