Civic polls: Sporadic violence reported in south Kolkata – Times of India

KOLKATA: The day began amid hectic activities for Trinamool candidates and polling agents as they took guard to ward off untoward situations.
However, as the day progressed, the ruling party candidates and agents went into picnic in large areas of south Kolkata as reports of stray incidents of violence in some parts of central, north and east Kolkata came in.
Barring allegations of booth jamming, intimidation and false voting by Left candidates in Baghajatin, Jadavpur, Garia and Kidderpore, polling in most parts of south Kolkata went peacefully.
A TOI team found polling going on without noise and with fewer voters in Ballygunge Place, Jamir Lane, Dhakuria, Golf Green, Southern Avenue, Jodhpur Park, Rashbehari Avenue, Lake Road and Bhowanipore.
The calm atmosphere perhaps attracted the elderly to go out to vote. Arun Roy, a 100-year-old in Gariahat, said, “I was worried about a stray incident of bombing in Ballygunge last night. But around noon on Sunday, I decided to go vote when I heard polling had remained peaceful by and large.”
CPM supporters staged a road block at Baghajatin where party leader Shamik Lahiri demanded re-poll in some booths of wards 101, 102, 109 and 110.
Debasish Kumar, a Trinamool candidate and the president of the party’s south Kolkata district, said, “I had no headache about the management of booths that fall in my own ward.”