<span style="color: #222222;">West Bengal assembly elections are announced today by election commission.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, the assembly elections for the West Bengal have been announced today by the Election Commission in a press conference held in Delhi today.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The term of current assembly ends on 30th May. The elections will be held in eight phases from 27th march 2021 to 29th April 2021 for 294 assembly constituencies.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The elections will be held following all covid related protocols.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">CEO West Bengal Sh Aariz Aftab informed in a press conference held today in Kolkata that elections will be held in 1,01,916 polling stations.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">There are total 7,32,94,980 voters including third gender.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He further informed that all polling stations will be on the ground floor.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">It is to be noted that central forces have already been deployed in West Bengal.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The forces will lay stress on area domination, specially in sensitive zones, assisted by state police and senior officials of the district administration.</span><br />''