New Delhi, April 28 -- Ajay Pal Sharma, the Uttar Pradesh batch IPS officer, who is also known as an 'encounter specialist', has become the focal point of political tensions between the TMC and the BJP ahead of the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections.

Tensions between the two parties started post Sharma's visit to areas where Falta TMC candidate Jahangir Khan's men were allegedly intimidating voters and also collecting voter cards from the people in the constituency. Sharma reached the area and said on record that he would not allow Khan or his men to intimidate the locals of the area.

With over a hundred armed central paramilitary troops, an armoured vehicle, and a list of potential "trouble makers" in his pocket, the 20...