Police break up clashes after workers from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party took on those from the regional party Trinamool CongressAttendees arrive for a rally with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Mumbai, India, on Friday, April 26, 2019.
There were no immediate reports of any poll-related injuries in West Bengal, where at least one person was killed and three injured during the third phase of voting last week. “We have asked for central forces at all polling booths so that free and fair elections can be held in the state,” said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a minister in Modi’s cabinet, referring to federal paramilitary police.
Maidul Islam, a professor of political science at Kolkata’s Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, said the stakes were high for both parties, with Trinamool hoping to be part of a federal government coalition. More than 128-million people are eligible to vote in this round of the seven-phase election held across 72 seats in nine states. The election commission said about half of them had voted by mid-afternoon.Many of the constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh state in the north and western India’s Maharashtra, where the financial capital Mumbai is located. Uttar Pradesh elects the most MPs , with Maharashtra next and West Bengal third. The two former states are ruled by the BJP and its allies.
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