Kolkata, April 26 -- The fates of 47 candidates, including two sitting BJP MPs - Sukanta Majumdar the State BJP president, his Darjeeling counterpart Raju Bista - will be decided even as three North Bengal constituencies of Darjeeling, Balurghat and Raiganj go to second phase polling on Friday.

In order to conduct free, fair and peaceful polling the Election Commission of India has deployed 272 companies of Central forces out of which 111 would be posted at Raiganj, once a Congress stronghold sending the then Union Minister PR Dasmunshi to Parliament.

Usually considered to be a violence-prone district, Raiganj has 418 sensitive booths most of which are around Goalpokhar, Chakulia and Dalkhola bordering Bihar. The area witnessed massive ...