EC to probe Mamata Banerjee's conduct at Nandigram polling booth

Calling Banerjee's handwritten complaint "factually incorrect", the poll body said Banerjee's action at the polling booth was fraught with "immense potential to have adverse effect on the law and order across West Bengal and maybe in some other states".

Last week, the searing second phase of the Bengal election was marked by a two-hour-long tension in Nandigram's Boyal, as TMC and BJP workers engaged in a verbal spat after CM Mamata Banerjee visited a polling station.

According to media coverage, Banerjee was allegedly gheraoed at polling booth no 7 at Nandigram AC on April 1 after she reached there following reports that the TMC polling agent was denied an entry into a booth.

In his report from Boyal Moktab Primary School polling station (in Nandigram), General Observer Hemen Das had said that "polling was not disrupted at any moment at the polling booth."

"A separate handwritten complaint was received from Banerjee via CEO of West Bengal in the late afternoon. The same has been forwarded to Special General Observer Ajay Nayak and Special Police Observer Vivek Dube. They have been asked to send a report by tomorrow 6 pm," the EC had earlier said on the Boyal incident.