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Massive induction of Border Security Force personnel for manning polling stations during the Bengal Assembly polls will affect vigilance along the international borders, the BSF top brass has admitted.

BSF Director General A K Mitra today said that with 160 companies of the force deployed for poll duty in West Bengal, the borders are bound to be 8220;vulnerable8221;.

The BSF will have to provide a part of the required manpower from its reserve force by downsizing 8216;miscellaneous jobs8217; during the elections, Mitra said. But the rest of its deployment will be drawn from the borders across the country, including the Bengal border, the D-G added.