In West Bengal over 52 per cent votes were cast , as per reports received a short while ago. Peaceful voting is in progress in all the six parliamentary seats covering four districts The seats are Raiganj, Balurghat, Malda North and South, Murshidabad and Jangipur.

The state Chief Electoral officer Sunil Gupta told AIR that no major untoward incident has so far been reported. Around 26 electronic voting machines were replaced at different booths following technical snag. Our correspondent reports that polling is being monitored at 190 high sensitive booths at four districts through web casting. Seven live monitoring vehicles fitted with cameras are also in placed at vulnerable areas to oversee poll process