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This Article is From Apr 06, 2021

Elections 2021 Live Updates: 84.21% Voter Turnout In West Bengal, 82.28% In Assam

Assembly Election 2021 Voting LIVE Updates: The results of all five elections will be declared on May 2.

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India News Edited by Arun Nair

Updated : April 06, 2021 10:10 pm IST

Elections 2021: An elderly voter assisted towards a polling booth in Bengal.

New Delhi:

Votes were polled in 1,53,538 Polling Stations spread across 475 Assembly Constituencies today, in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and for third phase of Assam and West Bengal. The number of Polling Stations has increased in view of the fact that the number of voters per polling station has been reduced from 1,500 to 1,000 keeping social distancing norms in view.

The voter turnout In Assam was 82.28% and 84.21% in West Bengal. While 73.40% of the people voted in Kerala till 6 pm, neighbouring Tamil Nadu witnessed 62.86% during the period till 5 pm. 77.87% voters cast their votes in Puducherry.

Meanwhile, an election officer in Bengal was suspended after he claimed he slept overnight with an electronic voting machine (EVM) at the home of a Trinamool Congress leader. The EVM and VVPAT will not be used in the polls, the election body said this morning. Tapan Sarkar, the deputed officer for Howrah's Sector 17 in AC 177 Uluberia Uttar, was found to have taken a reserve EVM to his politician-relative's home to sleep over. Charges for major punishment will now be framed against the official, authorities have said. Police officials attached to him will also face action, they said.

Along with the state polls, voting will also take place for Lok Sabha bypolls for Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari and Kerala's Malappuram seats.

Here are the live updates of assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry:

Apr 06, 2021 22:10 (IST)

Clash Between BJP, CPI (M) Workers In Kerala's Kattayikonam
A clash erupted on Tuesday afternoon between the workers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Kattayikonam area of rural Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala during the elections, reports news agency ANI.

Apr 06, 2021 21:14 (IST)

Tamil Nadu recorded a voter turnout of 65.11 per cent in the single-phase assembly elections.

Apr 06, 2021 20:33 (IST)

Tamil Nadu polls: AIADMK MP Ravindranath's car attacked in Bodinayakanur

AIADMK MP P Ravindranath's car was allegedly attacked on Tuesday when he went to inspect polling in Bodinayakanur constituency from where his father and Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam is contesting the elections.

Tamil Nadu recorded a voter turnout of 62.42 per cent till 5.30 pm in the assembly polls in the state, according to the Election Commission (EC).

Polling across 234 assembly constituencies in 38 districts of Tamil Nadu started at 7 am.

Apr 06, 2021 20:19 (IST)

Complaint against BJP candidate for sporting lotus emblem on sari while voting in Tamil Nadu

A complaint on violation of the Model Code of Conduct was lodged against BJP candidate in Coimbatore South Constituency Vanathi Srinivasan for sporting a Lotus emblem while casting her vote here on Tuesday, official sources said.

Vanathi Srinivasan, who arrived with a few party workers to the election booth, was found having a white lotus engraving on her sari, while casting her vote and her opponent Congress candidate, Mayura Jayakumar lodged a complaint with the returning officer.

The complaint was forwarded to the Chief Electoral Officer, Chennai for follow up, since lotus is the BJP symbol, official sources said.

Apr 06, 2021 19:39 (IST)

This election will create milestone in Kerala's political history: V Muraleedharan

The Kerala assembly poll is going to create a milestone in the state''s political history, said Union Minister V Muraleedharan on Tuesday after casting his vote at the Kottaram polling station in Ulloor.

"This poll is going to create a sort of milestone in the political history of Kerala. People will express their dissatisfaction and reject both United Democratic Front and Left Democratic Front alliances," the BJP leader said

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Apr 06, 2021 19:24 (IST)

DMK MP Kanimozhi, Other COVID-19 Affected People In Tamil Nadu Vote Wearing PPE Kit

DMK Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi, who is being treated for COVID-19, on Tuesday voted at a polling station by wearing the Personal Protective Equipment kit.

Also, a number of others being treated for the virus voted here and in other parts of Tamil Nadu.

Ms Kanimozhi arrived in an ambulance from the hospital where she is being treated for the infection and voted with the PPE kit on. She had tested positive for the virus on April 3.

Ahead of the arrival of people infected with the coronavirus, all personnel in polling stations donned the PPE kits and facilitated their voting. The premises were sanitised later.

Apr 06, 2021 19:07 (IST)

Kerala elections: Minor incidents of violence reported in some places

Kerala continued to witness a massive turnout of voters on Tuesday with 69.81 per cent electors casting their franchise till 5 PM as minor incidents of violence were reported from few places. As many as 957 candidates are in the poll arena vying for 140 Assembly seats in the state where the election is being held as per COVID-19 protocol.

Tempers ran high at Kattayikonam in Kazhakootam constituency, a stronghold of the Marxist party in Thiruvananthapuram district, as CPI(M) and BJP workers clashed.

Four BJP workers were injured and their car was damaged.

Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran, who is the LDF candidate from the constituency, told reporters that the aim of the protestors was to disrupt the voting procedure and alleged that police had acted as "BJP agent".

Apr 06, 2021 18:58 (IST)

Voting peaceful at Assam's Bhogdanga, polling station outside Indo-Bangla border fencing

With the hope that the new government of Assam will address their problems, Haleswar Ray on Tuesday voted for the party of his choice at the sole polling station set up outside the Indo-Bangladesh border fencing in the state's Dhubri district.

Mr Ray is one of the 386 voters of the polling station at Bhogdanga, a tiny hamlet in the Gauripur assembly constituency in the district, and voting was held peacefully in the third and final phase of the elections.

Dhubri district, which shares 153 kms of the total 267.5 kms of Assam's border with Bangladesh, has 63 polling stations along the international boundary with 26 in Dhubri, 18 in Gauripur and 19 in Golokgunj constituencies, an official said.

All these polling stations are inside the border fence except Bhogdanga which is outside it.

Apr 06, 2021 18:36 (IST)

Kerala Law minister files complaints with Election Commission against Opposition leader, NSS chief

Kerala Law Minister AK Balan on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Election Commission against Leader of the Opposition Ramesh Chennithala and Nair Service Society chief G Sukumaran Nair for "misusing the traditions and names of Gods in an unprecedented manner" on polling day.

The Sabarimala women's entry issue, one of the major poll planks of the opposition UDF and the NDA against the ruling LDF during campaigning, took centre stage even on Tuesday.

"The UDF and the BJP are misusing the traditions and the names of Gods in an unprecedented manner during this election. The Election Commission should take serious note of such incidents," Mr Balan said in his complaint.

Apr 06, 2021 17:55 (IST)

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Apr 06, 2021 16:51 (IST)

Tamil Nadu Assembly Polls: Congress Leader Karti Chidambaram Casts Vote In Sivaganga

Congress leader Karti Chidambaram today cast his vote along with his wife and daughter at a polling booth in Tiruppathur, Sivaganga district in Tamil Nadu. Read Here

Apr 06, 2021 16:46 (IST)

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Apr 06, 2021 15:35 (IST)

Bengal voting: Candidates with criminal cases contesting in phase 3 of assembly elections

Apr 06, 2021 15:29 (IST)

Apr 06, 2021 15:20 (IST)

Kerala voting: Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala have cast vote

Kerala is voting in a single phase for the 140 constituencies in the state.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who is contesting from Dharmadam in Kannur, Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala (Haripad), Senior Congress leader Oommen Chandy (Puthupally),

BJP state president K Surendran, trying his luck from Konni and Manjewswaram and ''Metroman'' E Sreedharan, (Palakkad) were among those who have already cast their votes.

Apr 06, 2021 15:03 (IST)

Apr 06, 2021 15:02 (IST)

Election voting: Over 20 crore people are voting in third phase

Over 20 crore people from Assam, Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are voting in a mammoth electoral exercise today. For the latter three, this is the first and only phase of polling. It is Assam's third and final, while Bengal has five more.

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