In Photos: Assembly Polls in Four States & One UT

Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and UT of Puducherry were held on 6 April.

Kamrup: Hajong tribal women show their voter identity cards as they wait in queue to cast their votes at a polling station for Assam Assembly polls, at Boko in Kamrup district, Tuesday. 

(Photo: PTI)

In one of the largest polling days after the parliamentary elections of 2019, Assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and were held on Tuesday, 6 April. Polling began at 7 am as 475 of the total 824 assembly constituencies went to polls across the four states and one UT.

For West Bengal, this was the third phase in an eight-phase election, while in Assam, it was the third and final phase of voting. Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry held single-phase polling. The results for all the polls will be declared on 2 May 2021.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, tweeted in Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil and English, appealing to voters to exercise their democratic right.

As India is undergoing a surge in the number of COVID cases, all polling booths across the states and the UT have been directed to follow COVID-19 protocols.

WEST BENGAL

South 24 Parganas: Voters undergo thermal screening as part of the precautions against COVID-19 as they stand in a queue to cast their votes at a polling station during the third phase of West Bengal Assembly elections, at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district.(Photo: PTI)

Howrah: Voters on Tuesday stand in queues to cast their votes during the third phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, in Howrah.(Photo: PTI)

South 24 Parganas: Volunteers on Tuesday provide hand sanitiser and mask to an elderly voter at a polling station during the third phase of West Bengal Assembly elections in South 24 Parganas district.(Photo: PTI)

Hooghly: People on Tuesday wait to cast their votes at a polling station, during the 3rd phase of Assembly elections in Hooghly. (PTI Photo/Ashok Bhaumik)

TAMIL NADU

Coimbatore: Women wait in a queue at a polling station in Coimbatore to cast their votes for the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls.(Photo: PTI)

Chennai: A physically challenged voter is offered help at a polling station in Chennai during voting for the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI Photo/R Senthil Kumar) 

Nilgiris: Kota tribal people show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting their votes at a polling station in Nilgiris.(Photo: PTI)

Nagercoil: Elderly voters after casting their votes for Tamil Nadu Assembly polls in Nagercoil.(Photo: PTI)

PUDUCHERRY

Electors defy the soaring mid-day temperature and follow COVID-safety measures to cast their votes at the Kalapet constituency in Puducherry. (Photo: Twitter/@ceopuducherry)

Volunteers and ramp & wheelchair facilities at all the poll booths ensure an inclusive election in Puducherry. (Photo: Twitter/@ceopuducherry)

A COVID-19 patient casts his vote at the Indira Nagar constituency, Puducherry, during the last hour of voting by following all safety measures.(Photo: Twitter/@ceopuducherry)

ASSAM

Guwahati: Voters queue up to cast their votes at a polling station, during the third and final phase of Assam Assembly elections, in Guwahati on Tuesday.(Photo: PTI)

Kamrup: Hajong tribal women show their voter identity cards as they wait in the queue to cast their votes at a polling Station for Assembly polls, at Boko in Kamrup district, Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

Guwahati: People pose for photographs in front of a mural dedicated to COVID warriors after votes for Assembly polls at a model polling station in Guwahati. (Photo: PTI)

KERALA

Chettialathoor. One of the remote polling stations in Sulthan Bathery LAC, Wayanad district, inside Wayanad Wild Life Sanctury, Kerala.(Photo: Twitter/@ceokerala)

Kariyan from Maancheri comes all the way from his home on the hills to cast his vote. Visuals from Nedunkayam, Malappuram Dist. Kerala.(Photo: Twitter/@ceokerala)

People wait for their turn to vote outside a booth in Wayanad District, Kerala.(Photo: Twitter/@ceokerala)