Citizens claim that workers of the saffron party used intimidation tactics to stop them from voting, while opposition candidates assert that booth-capturing took place in full view of the police.
Trinamool Congress Tripura unit Steering Committee head Subal Bhowmik alleged that the police continue to be a mute spectator on the incidents of violence against party candidates.
The Tripura civic elections began at 7 am today amid claims by the opposition Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI(M), and the Trinamool Congress that workers of the ruling BJP are going around on motorcycles and intimidating their candidates.