Assembly Elections 2021: Sporadic violence marks voting in Kerala, Bengal; polling largely peaceful in TN, Assam, Puducherry

ECI said that elections remained largely peaceful in all states. However, media reports confirmed sporadic spurts of violence in West Bengal where some candidates of the ruling TMC were allegedly attacked by BJP cadres Polling was conducted peacefully in 1,53,538 polling stations across 475 Assembly constituencies in the single-phase elections in the states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and for the third phase in Assam and West Bengal on Tuesday, said the Election Commission. This is their ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ pic.twitter.com/uBh4oTyNeR — All India Trinamool Congress April 6, 2021 While the TMC claimed that BJP “goons” didn’t allow the party’s polling agents inside the polling stations, the saffron party accused Sujata of entering the area with TMC “goons” and creating unrest by threatening people against going to the polling stations to exercise their franchise. pic.twitter.com/QJ5Lxl2i2j — ANI April 6, 2021 Assam polling largely peaceful Polling remained largely peaceful in Assam, where 82.33 percent of the 79,19 eligible voters exercised their franchise to elect candidates from 40 constituencies in the third and last phase of the Assembly election, as per EC’s provisional data. In a polling booth in Bongaigaon, there was lathi-charge by the police when a huge crowd arrived, an official said while at another polling station in the constituency, police brought the situation under control as a commotion broke out when the presiding officer went to help a differently-abled person to cast his vote In another incident police detained at least two persons from a polling booth at Kamrup Academy Higher Secondary School in Guwahati for allegedly distributing BJP pamphlets carrying minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya’s pictures.