Kolkata, June 19 -- Amid inclement weather and monsoon rains, voting began peacefully in West Bengal's Kaliganj assembly seat in Nadia district with the Central armed forces guarding all the 309 polling stations spread across the 13 panchayat areas, official sources said on Thursday.
Though the number of voters was scanty in the early hours as polling began at 7 am in the assembly byelection of the day, where over 2.5 lakh electors are expected to exercise their right up to the scheduled 5 pm.
The byelection is restricted to a triangular fight among the ruling Trinamool Congress, the main opposition BJP and the Congress-Left combination in this border district.
TMC's candidate Alifa Ahmed, BJP's Ashis Ghosh and Congress' candidate Kabil ...