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62.1% voter turnout in West Bengal till 1 pm
Voting in the Assembly elections was underway in Tamil Nadu and a part of West Bengal on Thursday.
In Tamil Nadu, polling is being held in all of the state’s 234 seats. In West Bengal, voting is being held in 152 of the state’s 294 constituencies.
As of 1 pm, the voter turnout in Tamil Nadu was 56.8%. In West Bengal, the turnout was 62.1%, data from the Election Commission showed.
Polling began at 7 am and will conclude at 6 pm.
Voting in the remaining seats in West Bengal will be held on April 29. In both states, the votes will be counted on May 4, along with those in Assam, Kerala and Puducherry where polling was held on April 9.
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During polling on Thursday in West Bengal’s Murshidabad, a scuffle broke out between Trinamool Congress workers and Aam Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir in Murshidabad district, ANI reported. Trinamool Congress members reportedly shouted slogans of “go back” and accused Kabir of being a BJP agent.
The Aam Janata Unnayan Party founder was visiting the area where a crude bomb was allegedly hurled a day earlier, injuring a woman and triggering panic ahead of voting.
The Election Commission has sought a report from the district magistrate and district election officer on the scuffle, ANI reported.
The Trinamool Congress on Thursday alleged that three women were assaulted by Central Reserve Police Force personnel at a polling booth in the Lakhipur ward of Uttar Dinajpur district, The Hindu reported. One of the women suffered a head injury, the newspaper quoted an unidentified party leader as saying.
The polls are taking place against the backdrop of the Election Commission having carried out a special intensive revision of the electoral rolls in 12 states and Union Territories, including Tamil Nadu and West Bengal.
Nearly 91 lakh voters have been removed from West Bengal’s voter lists as part of the exercise. The deletions represent nearly 11.9% of the state’s electorate of 7.6 crore that existed before the revision process began.
About 27 lakh appeals filed in tribunals against exclusion from the voter lists are mostly undecided.
All decisions made by the tribunals on the addition and deletion of voters by April 21 for the first phase and April 27 for the second must be reflected in the final voter lists, the Supreme Court has told the Election Commission.
Ahead of the first phase, only 138 of the 27 lakh appeals had been decided on by the tribunals.
In Tamil Nadu, more than 74 lakh names were removed from the final voter list.
A record 2.4 lakh Central Armed Police Forces have been deployed in West Bengal for the first phase.
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In West Bengal, the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has been in power since 2011. The main Opposition in the state over the years has shifted from the Left parties to the Bharatiya Janata Party.
In the 2021 polls, the BJP managed to win 77 seats in the 294-member Assembly. The Trinamool Congress had won 215. A party or an alliance needs 148 seats for a majority. The other alliance comprising the Left, the Congress and some smaller parties, despite securing a 10% vote share, had won just one seat.
In the Tamil Nadu polls in 2021, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam-led alliance, which includes the Congress and the Left, won 159 seats in the 234-member Assembly. A party or an alliance needs 118 seats for a majority.
The National Democratic Alliance, comprising the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the BJP, had won 75. DMK leader MK Stalin had become the chief minister.
The actor-turned-politician Vijay’s Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam is making its electoral debut in this year’s election.
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