OpIndia Staff

Polling in two parliamentary constituencies of West Bengal, Cooch Behar, and Alipurduar, is being held in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 11.

Ajmal had fielded only 3 candidates declaring that he has left the other seats for the Congress because he doesn't want the division of 'secular' votes. There were also reports of a rift within the Congress over support to Ajmal's party.

Violence has been reported in West Bengal in the two constituencies, Cooch Behar and Alipurduar, that has gone to polls in the first phase of the elections.

Similar kind of open polarisation of votes was seen even a few days earlier when BSP Supremo Mayawati had openly appealed for consolidation of Muslims votes.

Two days back, BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi had lost his life when Naxal terrorists ambushed his convoy in Dantewada, Bastar

Mamata Banerjee's rally got delayed as a helicopter ride which was to take 22 minutes took 55 minutes

Voting for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections has begun today with people of 91 out of 543 seats will cast their votes to choose their representative in the parliament

Janasena MLA candidate Madhusudan Gupta has been arrested for smashing an EVM inside a polling booth in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district.

AIMIM's Asadudding Owaisi and Congress' Renuka Chowdhary will also fight it out today

Despite earning over 8 lakh rupees in the past two years, Kanhaiya Kumar had claimed he could not afford cooking gas cylinder