As votes are counted in West Bengal on Monday, voters of Falta in South 24 Parganas district will get to see who has been voted to power. But they themselves have to wait for almost three more weeks to cast their votes again and choose their MLA after the Election Commission (EC) issued a rare order directing that polls be held again in all 285 polling stations in the constituency. One of the Assembly segments in TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee’s Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency, Falta is one of the party’s bastions and gave the MP a lead of more than 1.5 lakh votes in the 2024 Lok Sabha constituencies. This time, the EC reported “severe electoral offences and subversion of democratic process during polling” in the Assembly constituency, where TMC candidate Jahangir Khan wields massive influence. Opposition candidates have alleged that the electoral process was manipulated through the use of “black tape/perfume on ballot unit”.…