ABHIJEET CHATTERJEEPolling personnel at a booth in East Burdwan on Sunday. "I have been seeing some unknown faces roaming around our village in groups for the past two days. They have advised us not to go out of our homes on the voting day," a retired schoolteacher said at Bhumshore in Bhatar block, East Burdwan. Bhatar is one of the highly sensitive gram panchayats in the district where Opposition parties as well as dissident Trinamul workers are contesting. The West Burdwan Trinamul president, V. Sivadasan, said: "We do not need anti-socials to rig the polls as we have mass support."

Source: The Telegraph May 13, 2018 20:37 UTC