Bomb hurled in Kolkata amid polling | Ground Report

A bomb was hurled near Mahajati Sadan Auditorium in north Kolkata today. Election Commission has sought details of the incident. Details are awaited. 

The Election Commission has already announced that 5,433 booths of the total 11,860 booths are extremely sensitive and so have deployed 24 general observers, nine expenditure observers and nine police observers for the eighth phase of the polls. There will be webcasting facilities in 5,565 per cent of the booths and micro-observers will be deployed in 20 per cent of the booths.