Updated On: 14 May, 2018 08:40 AM IST | Kolkata | Agencies
Notwithstanding the elaborate security arrangements in which 60,000 security personnel from West Bengal and other states were deployed, violence broke out in North and South 24 Parganas, East Midnapore, Burdwan, Nadia, Murshidabad and South Dinajpur


An injured TMC activist being taken for treatment after clashes at Beldanga. Pic/PTI
Widespread violence during the panchayat polls in West Bengal on Monday left at least eight people dead and 43 injured, as 73 per cent of the electorate turned out to cast their vote.