Both sides created chances in the first half but it was SCEB who converted them and deservedly headed into the break with a two-goal cushion.
'I'm just about getting out of the cocoon now,' the former investment banker-turned-politician tells Kavita Roychowdhury.
The EC has deployed 580 companies of central forces to man over 98 per cent of the polling booths in these constituencies to ensure free and fair polling.