Kolkata has 1,024 polling premises with 2,807 booths which will go into polls from 7am to 6pm during the fifth phase of West Bengal Assembly elections on Saturday. (Source: Express photo by Subham Dutta) CAMPAIGNING FOR the high-stake fifth phase Assembly poll in West Bengal, in which a galaxy of heavyweights including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are in fray, ended on Thursday evening. This phase — 53 constituencies in South Kolkata, Hooghly and South 24-Parganas will vote on Saturday — will see the chief minister and four scam-tainted Trinamool Congress legislators amid a test for the Left-Congress combine to prove its hold on Kolkata. Apprehending violence, the Election Commission (EC)...
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