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booths at 175.
Nadia will witness re-voting in 89 booths, followed by Cooch Behar (53), North 24 Parganas (46), Uttar Dinajpur (42), South 24 Parganas (36), Purba Medinipur (31) and Hooghly (29), the official said. No repolling will be held in the Darjeeling, Jhargram and Kalimpong districts.
Meanwhile, a panel formed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will visit West Bengal to probe the cases of violence during the panchayat polls in the state and present a report to party president J P Nadda. The committee will be headed by former law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Other members of the committee are former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh, Rajdeep Roy and party vice-president Rekha Verma.
The announcement came after the SEC held a meeting on Sunday evening after taking cognizance of reports of vote-tampering and violence in many places. Protests against the poll violence and alleged irregularities in the Panchayat Election were held across West Bengal on Sunday.
BJP workers blocked the Haldia-Mecheda state highway at Nandakumar in Purba Medinipur district, alleging that ballot boxes were tampered with at the counting centre at Srikrishnapur High School. Congress workers, on the other hand, blocked the National Highway 12 in the Rathbari area in Malda, protesting against the poll violence on Saturday.
According to a PTI report, four security personnel will be present in each of the booths along with state police.
“After reviewing the reports received from the districts, we have decided to conduct repolling in over 690 booths in 19 districts. There will be four CAPF personnel in every booth for tomorrow’s polling,” an official told PTI.
Meanwhile, Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Sunday arrived in Delhi where he is likely to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah and submit a report on the violence that took place during the panchayat elections.