Kolkata, Apr 19 (Reporter) An estimated 50.96 percent of the 5.6 million electorates exercised their franchise till 1 PM in the three Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal with Cooch Behar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri recording 50.69 percent, 51.50 percent and 50.65 percent respectively. The poll panel has received 468 complaints up to 2 PM with 218 from Cooch Behar, 150 from Alipurduar, and 100 from Jalpaiguri. Delhi poll panel has also sought a report as to why state police had stopped BJP MLA Shikha Chatterjee's car at Dubgram. She is an MLA from Datagram Pool Bari under the Jalpaiguri district. A total of 27,63,506 women are expected to exercise their constitutional rights to elect their representatives from among 30 odd contestants in some 5814 booths until 5 PM. About 250 companies of armed central forces were deployed and some 10,000 state police personnel have been posted to ensure peaceful and fair polling. Thirteen extra CAPF companies were put on reserve to be used in case of any exigency. Poll officials and election observers are monitoring the voting process in the field with no major incident reported so far. The Election Commission has restricted Bengal Minister Udayan Guha to his Dinhata segment after Cooch Behar's BJP contestant Nisith Pramanik appealed to the poll panel against his alleged intimidation. Guha was seen at the Dinhata police station this morning to complain about an alleged attack on the TMC block President at Jenkins High School in Dinhata. Though the contest is said to be multi-cornered, the real fight is restricted between state ruling Trinamool Congress and the main opposition - the Bharatiya Janata Party. The latter won all three seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha poll. The Left Front and Congress are among other political parties, in the run-up. The majority of the candidates are Independents. The contest is expected to be between Union Minister Pramanik and TMC's Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia in the Cooch Behar seat, in Alipurduar between Monoj Tigga (BJP) and TMC's Prakash Chik Baraik, and in Jalpaiguri between Jayanta Kumar Roy of BJP and Nirmal Chandra Roy from the ruling party. Union Minister Nishith Pramanik, also a BJP candidate from Cooch Behar, exercised his franchise in the first phase of polling. Pramanik accused State Minister Udayan Guha of fomenting violence, saying Guha knows it fully well that the Trinamool Congress is going to lick the dust. He said, " Whatever the electorate will decide, we are going to accept. " Guha accused the poll officials of "siding" with the BJP. He said he has never seen that the central forces have been deployed a month before the polling day. Meanwhile, reports of stray violent incidents have been reported from Sitalkuchi, Mathabhanga, Sitai, and elsewhere. There has been no report of any untoward incident from a single polling booth, being guarded by armed central forces. The voting process commenced at 7 AM under a tight security arrangement...////...