India, May 20 -- Bengal lived up to its violent reputations even as reports of stray, yet continued and 'systematic' violence emanated from most of the nine parliamentary constituencies - and four Assembly seats where, bypolls took place - that went to the seventh and final phase of polling on Sunday.
Reports of bombing, booth-capture, proxy voting and came in from Jadavpur, Diamond Harbour, Joynagar, Dum Dum, Basirhat and North Kolkata even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Central forces of "doing excess."
The final phase of polling witnessed a "remarkably low" 72.91 per cent of polling till 5 pm in the evening. Though the rate may go up by a few notches till the polling ends it is unlikely to cross the 80 per cent bar. Beng...