Bengal panchayat election: Re-polling underway, TMC leader got brutally attacked

The people of 19 districts in West Bengal are again casting their votes in as many as 696 booths for the panchayat elections on Monday, a day after the State Election Commission declared Saturday's polling in these places as void amid allegations of tampering with ballot boxes and violence that left at least 19 dead.

The repolling, which began at 7am, will be held till 5pm amid tight security with four central forces personnel deployed in each of those booths, besides state police, they said.

A total 5.67 crore people living in the state's rural areas were eligible to decide the fate of 2.06 lakh candidates in 73,887 seats of the panchayat system.