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West Bengal Election 2021: Some incidents of violence were reported today from several areas where voting was held for the eighth and last phase of assembly elections in Bengal, but the overall polling process was peaceful. Voting was held in 11,860 polling stations of 35 constituencies — 11 each in Murshidabad and Birbhum, six in Malda and seven in north Kolkata. One person was killed and two others injured as a car hit them in Murshidabad district, hours before the polling exercise began, triggering tension in the area. The CPI(M) alleged that its member Kader Mondal (42) was killed, and two others — Asim Al Mamoon (43) and Lal Chand Mondal (42) — sustained injuries after TMC candidate Jafikul Islam ran his car over them. (PTI)