West Bengal begins the first phase of its Assembly elections with around 3.6 crore voters across 152 constituencies. Heavy security deployment, electoral roll revisions and close contests between Trinamool Congress and BJP mark the high-stakes polls
Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the TMC government of compromising national security by protecting infiltrators for vote-bank politics. Addressing a rally in Singur, he urged voters to end “maha jungle raj” and back the BJP’s double-engine model for development and law and order