High-decibel campaigns for the Tamil Nadu assembly polls and 152 seats in West Bengal ended on Tuesday, with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) making a strong push to breach the Opposition’s bastions in the southern and eastern parts of India.
Voting for the second phase of 142 seats in West Bengal will take place on April 29. Votes will be counted on May 4, along with that of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry.
Sporadic clashes broke out in Bengal.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the DMK and the Congress for “derailing the women’s reservation bill”.
Chief minister MK Stalin repeatedly accused the Centre of not allocating funds to the state, non-allocation of metro rail projects to Madurai and Coimbatore, and trying to impose Hindi under the garb of the National Education Policy.
Home minister Amit Shah sounded a warning for the ruling party in his first rally in Darjeeling’s hill region.
