Kolkata, April 19 -- The police administration on Thursday went on high alert as an uneasy lull descended in parts of Cooch Behar district of North Bengal which will go to first phase of elections along with neighbouring Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar on Friday.

Union Home Minister for State Nisith Pramanik of the BJP is pitted against his main contender Jagadish Chandra Basunia of Trinamool Congress in the constituency.

Besides intermittent face offs between the TMC and the BJP all these weeks Cooch Behar, an SC seat, has also been in the news because it is one of those few constituencies where the Left and the Congress have failed to put a joint candidate unlike in other parts of the State.

Notwithstanding, all eyes are likely to be on th...