India elections: Voting under way, reports of clashes

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/india-polls-fourth-phase-general-election-190429031536053.html

Police broke up clashes between rival groups of voters in West Bengal on Monday, while some of India's richest families and Bollywood stars also cast their ballots in Mumbai during the fourth phase of the country's staggered general elections.

More than 127 million people are eligible to vote in this round of the seven-phase elections held across 71 seats in nine states.

In West Bengal, a populous eastern state crucial for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's re-election bid, supporters of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) clashed with backers of the regional Trinamool Congress, police said.

TV footage showed armed security forces chasing people wielding sticks, although it was initially difficult to determine the scale of the clashes.

Here's a graphic of just the major parties contesting:



You vote by party symbol. I'm not sure how the two elephants and two bicycles distinguish themselves from each other.

I was in Mumbai for the last election where BJP won a shockingly large national victory (I was in a "bow and arrow" neighborhood, right next to a "clock" neighborhood, on the graphics above). Things look less sanguine for Modi's party this time around, although they will still be able to form a coalition government.