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NEW DELHI: Over 800 companies of paramilitary forces will be deployed for nine Lok Sabha constituencies in the last phase of polling in West Bengal on Sunday, said officials, adding that security has been beefed up taking into account governor Keshari Nath Tripathi’s reports to the Centre. There have been more than 300 incidents of poll violence reported from West Bengal so far.The governor’s report, ET has learnt, gave phase-wise details of violence in West Bengal and sought to ensure safety of citizens in the wake of reports that the ruling Trinamool Congress cadres were allegedly threatening voters.The report, sources said, further sought to allay fears among voters so that they can exercise their fundamental right without any fear.“The West Bengal administration has sought 900 paramilitary personnel but due to simultaneous polls in other states, including UP and Bihar, the Centre had agreed to provide 700 companies of CAPFs,” an official familiar with the development told ET.Besides central forces, the state will also witness deployment of over 110 state armed forces taking the overall deployment for the last phase of polling in West Bengal to above 800, said officials.Government officials said the central forces deployment in West Bengal has even surpassed that of Jammu and Kashmir for the last phase and was done following EC and West Bengal governor’s report that slammed the state administration for denying “level playing field to all the candidates”.On Wednesday, the EC cut short campaigning in West Bengal by a day in nine constituencies which will go to the polls on May 19. The move, an official said, follows intervention by the Union home ministry which wrote to the EC drawing its attention to incidents of violence and also gave an assessment based on the governor’s report.The ministry, in its communication to the EC, also cited violence during BJP chief Amit Shah ’s roadshow and attack on BJP leader Babul Supriyo in Basirhat, allegedly by Trinamool workers. “These measures are being taken to ensure free, fair and peaceful polls and to encourage, motivate voters to go to polling stations to cast their votes without any fear,” an official said.In a first of its kind action, the EC on Wednesday also ordered removal of principal secretary (home) Atri Bhattacharya and ADG, CID, Rajeev Kumar from their posts in West Bengal, for “having interfered in the process of conducting polls by directing WB CEO”. Kumar, who was attached to the MHA, on Thursday morning reported to Union home secretary Rajiv Gauba, complying with the EC orders.While exercising its powers under Article 324 of the constitution, EC has pulled up the state administration and said: “There is distinct resistance and non-cooperation from the district administration and district police when it comes to providing level playing field to all the candidates for campaigning and in providing a fearless and free environment to the voters.”It further said on the surface, everything looks fine but special election observers, appointed by EC, in their frank interactions with the public, found a widely prevailing fear psychosis.“They pointed out that utterances of the AITC senior leaders on the lines of ‘central forces will leave at the end of elections, while we will remain’, sends a chilling message among the officers as well as voters alike,” EC said, referring to the report of special observers Ajay Nayak, a former IAS officer, and Vivek Dubey, a retired IPS officer.