10% voting in first two hours in Kerala
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan arriving with his wife to cast his vote in Kannur.. Image Source: IANS News
Thiruvananthapuram, April 6 : Across Kerala, the response to polling was enthusiastic and after the first two hours of poll, 10 per cent of the electorate had cast their votes, said the State Election Commission officials on Wednesday.
The fate of 957 candidates would be decided by an electorate of 1,41,62,025 women, 1,32,83,724 men and 290 transgender voters.
The ruling Left led by its Captain Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan cast his vote at his home town in Kannur and later said, The writing on the wall was very evident, right from the time the campaign started we could sense the mood of the people and the Left will retain power.
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Kerala heads in to Assembly elections with tight security arrangements, live monitoring of 50 pc polling stations ANI | Updated: Apr 06, 2021 06:58 IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], April 6 (ANI): Elections to choose members of the 140-seat Kerala Legislative Assembly commences in the state on Tuesday with a three-cornered fight between the incumbent Left Democratic Front (LDF) which hopes for continuity of term, the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
A total of 2.74 crore voters are set to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 957 candidates in the fray. Voting will start at 7 am and end at 6 pm.
Assembly elections 2021: Voting underway in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry
The counting of votes in all these states and union territory will be conducted on May 2. Two senior citizens cast their votes for the third and final phase of Assam Assembly Polls (ANI photo)
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Updated: Apr 6, 2021, 07:40 AM IST
Polling in the Assembly Elections for four states and one union territory began on Tuesday amid tight security and COVID-19 guidelines. At 7 am, voting for the final phase in Assam and the third phase in West Bengal, began. Voting also started for the single-phase polling in Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu.
Brisk polling in Nemom, Kazhakkottam in Kerala
April 06, 2021
Brisk polling has been reported from the five or six Assembly segments in Thiruvananthapuram district which are witnessing some of the prestigious fights with all three fronts - the outgoing CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF), main opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) and spirited contender BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) - locked in fierce multi-cornered contests.
Among these are Nemom from where Kummanam Rajasekharan (BJP), former Mizoram Governor, takes on K Muraleedharan of the Congress and V Sivankutty of the CPI(M); Kazhakoottam, where Kadakampalli Suredran, Temple Administration Minister in the LDF government has run into strong opposition from firebrand Sobha Surendran (BJP) and SS Lal (Congress); and VV Rajesh, President of district BJP, confronts sitting MLA VK Prasanth (CPI(M) and debutant Veena Nair of the Congress.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (File Photo: IANS) | IANS
West Bengal may have commanded most of the attention and headlines with its eight-phase elections that come with national implications. But Kerala, which votes in just one phase on April 6, is set for assembly polls that could be momentous in its own way, without fitting into a simple Bharatiya Janata Party vs everyone else pan-India narrative.
The southern state has seen power alternate between two fronts every five years for the last four decades. Almost like clockwork, and seemingly irrespective of how successful each government was, voters threw out the incumbents and brought in the Opposition in every electoral cycle since 1983.