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Polling began at 7 am for 44 seats in the fourth phase of the West Bengal Assembly election amid tight security.

His suggestions came a day after Prime Minister Modi said vaccines will have to be prioritised due to limited supply and lamented that some people were playing politics on the issue.

Modi has taken Covaxin, India's homegrown vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech.

India is also conducting the world's largest vaccination drive to strengthen the fight against COVID-19, he asserted.

Claiming that a BJP wave was blowing across West Bengal and his party would form the next government, Modi said Banerjee's angry reactions indicate that she has lost the polls.

The IMA also suggested that private sector family clinics should be included actively in the vaccination drive along with private hospitals.

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are voting on Tuesday in single-phase assembly elections.

In February, it was announced that Prime Minister Modi's annual interaction with students will be held online this year in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Modi is scheduled to go straight to the National Martyrs' Memorial in Savar from the airport to pay tributes to the 1971 Liberation War martyrs.

The prime minister had on Thursday said he will hold substantive discussions with his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina during the visit.

Modi had on Tuesday written to Khan to extend greetings to the people of that country on the occasion of Pakistan Day.

The Tulip garden is located at the foothills of Zaberwan range with an overview of Dal Lake and is the largest tulip garden in Asia.

Pakistan Day is celebrated to mark the Lahore Resolution on March 23 each year.

March 23 is observed as 'Shaheed Diwas' to pay tribute to the trio who were hanged for killing British police officer J P Saunders.

The campaign will be undertaken across the country, in both rural and urban areas, with the theme "catch the rain, where it falls, when it falls".

It will be launched as a 'Jan Andolan' (public movement) to take water conservation at the grassroot level through people's participation.

"When there was a Congress government at the centre and in the state at the same time, there was double neglect, double corruption and double infiltration", he said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to unveil its manifesto for West Bengal polls on Sunday.

He also accused the Banerjee government of patronising underground Maoist rebels.

"Mann ki Baat" is the Prime Minister's monthly radio address to the nation, which is broadcast on the last Sunday of every month.