Kolkata woke up to the news that Maoist posters had appeared late in the night on the walls of the famous Coffee House on College Street and the PresidenCy College.

The posters said, 'Keep the war alive, boycott the votes.'

Four districts of West Bengal are voting today in the second of the five-phase assembly elections.

Coffee House was once famous as the seat of Bengali intellectualism, and Presidency College saw many of its students joining the Naxalbari Movement in the early 1970s.

The police have torn down the posters, the reports said.

On Friday, there were unconfirmed reports of Maoist posters appearing in West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya's Jadavpur assembly constituency's Ajaynagar area. The East Jadavpur police station officials said they had no such reports.