Caught In BJP-Trinamool Chaos For 2 Hours, Mamata Banerjee Dials Governor

"People who are raising slogans are outsiders. They came from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. They are being protected by Central Forces," added
Ms Banerjee, whose party had written to the Election Commission earlier, requesting that security forces from NDA-ruled states like Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh not be deployed in Bengal in the interest of free and fair polls.

Security personnel from these states, the party alleged, will be partisan.

Voting in Nandigram is in progress amid multiple allegations of disruptions by the Trinamool Congress.

Senior party leader Derek O'Brien has already written to the Election Commission, alleging booth capture by BJP men. "Huge mob of BJP workers have entered booth no.s 6, 7, 49, 27, 162, 21, 26, 13, 262, 256, 163, 20. BJP workers attempting to take control of EVM & rigging the booth," he wrote.

In the morning, party MP Mahua Moitra tweeted, "More than 150 EVM machines malfunctioning since Phase II voting started this morning Wish @ECISVEEP had put half as much effort into ensuring no EVM  glitches as it did into transferring police officials."

The Election Commission said that problems relating to voting machines had been largely resolved.