West Bengal final phase assembly elections begins today

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KOLKATA:-Voting for The last and sixth phase of West Bengal assembly election 2016 began on Thursday morning at 7 am and it will be over at evening 5 pm amid high security among 25 constituencies.
Inhabitants  of the erstwhile enclaves in Cooch Behar will vote for the first time on Thursday, marking a giant leap in their absorption into India after nearly seven decades of stateless existence. Nine constituencies that will be start on Thursday are in Cooch Behar district and 16 in East Midnapore. More than 58 lakh voters across 6,774 polling stations -- including 9 auxiliary booths -- are eligible to decide the fate of 170 candidates in which includes 18 women in this phase. The Election Commission will arrange at least 7,790 Electronic Voting Machines and 621 Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). It will be a memorable day for enclave inhabitants -- 9,776 of whom are registered as voters. These include 567, residents of the erstwhile Indian enclaves that are now part of Bangladesh but who have opted for Indian citizenship. At least 37,000 inhabitants in the 111 Indian enclaves in Bangladesh became citizens of the neighbouring country, 922 of them opted for Indian citizenship and have been living in Enclave Settlement camps in Dinhata and Haldibari, Cooch Behar. The electorate from the former enclaves are spread across five constituencies -- Dinhata (5,486 voters), Mekhliganj (988), Sitai (1,396), Sitalkuchi (1,898) and Tufanganj (8).
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