KOLKATA: Voting began on Thursday morning for the re-election to the Falta assembly seat in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, amid tight security, officials said.
More than 2.36 lakh people, including 1.15 lakh women and nine belonging to the third gender, are eligible to cast their votes across 285 booths in this re-election, which commenced at 7 am, they said.
The repoll was ordered due to “severe electoral offences and subversion of the democratic process” on April 29, when voting in Falta was held in the second phase of the assembly elections, the officials said.
