NEW DELHI – Clashes between followers of rival parties left at least twodead and several injured on the first day of India’s huge electionThursday, media reports said.
Suspected Maoist rebels also triggered blasts in Chhattisgarh andMaharashtra states in a bid to disrupt voting.
Activists of the Telegu Desam Party and the YSR Congress party, regionalgroups in central Andhra Pradesh state, fought each other outside a pollingstation in Tadipatri, Firstpost news website reported.
Online videos showed bloodied and injured supporters of the rival parties.Firstpost said a TSP leader, Bhaskar Reddy, and YSR worker Pulla Reddy diedin the clashes.It added that two party workers were left in critical condition.
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The two parties are in contention for 25 parliamentary and 175 AndhraPradesh state assembly seats being contested on Thursday.
The procedure would continue till May 19th and the counting would begin andend on May 23rd.
