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Kerala elections: Clash between BJP, CPI (M) workers in Kattayikonam on poll day ANI | Updated: Apr 06, 2021 21:31 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], April 6 (ANI): A clash erupted on Tuesday afternoon between the workers of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) and that of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at the Kattayikonam area of rural Thiruvanathapuram in Kerala during the polling.
The police have registered a case on the basis of BJP workers allegation that one of their agents was attacked by CPI (M) workers. The CPI (M), however, refuted the claim and said that one of their workers travelling in a car was attacked by the BJP workers.
A high voter turnout was recorded in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry assembly elections on Tuesday, with the Congress along with its allies like the DMK locked in a keen contest to regain turf in South India. In Kerala, where the Left is hoping to beat anti-incumbency to retain power, a feat unseen in four decades, while the BJP is making efforts to build inroads, nearly 74 percent polling was recorded till 7 PM. There was 63.47 percent voting in Tamil Nadu for 234 assembly constituencies and 77.90 percent in Puducherry till 5 PM. The three-phase assembly election culminated in Assam with nearly 79 percent polling in the final round in the state where the ruling BJP is battling the Congress-led alliance to retain power, while the trend of high turnout and violence during polling continued in West Bengal as the ruling Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the Left-Congress alliance put up an intense fight in the high-stakes contest.
DMK Lok Sabha MP Kanimozhi cast her vote in a PPE kit
New Delhi: A high voter turnout was recorded in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry assembly elections on Tuesday (April 6), with the Congress along with its allies like the DMK locked in a keen contest to regain turf in South India.
In Kerala, where the Left is hoping to beat anti-incumbency to retain power, a feat unseen in four decades, while the BJP is making efforts to build inroads, nearly 74 percent polling was recorded till 7 PM. There was 63.47 percent voting in Tamil Nadu for 234 assembly constituencies and 77.90 percent in Puducherry till 5 PM.
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