Kasaragod, Nov 2: Polling to the local bodies in the Kasaragod district passed off by and large peacefully registering a provisional 78 per cent voter turnout.
The Kanhangad municipality, which witnessed one of the spirited contest, registered 79.56 per cent polling while the Left stronghold of Neeleshwaram had 78.71 per cent voter turnout.
The IUML heartland of Kasaragod municipality marked 70.19 per cent polling.
The polling which began at 7 a.m. saw steady stream of voters turning up to the polling stations with women outnumbering men in most of the booths. Even though the polling process went off peacefully, isolated incidents of clashes between rival political party activists were reported from some parts of the district.
The police had to resort to smoke grenade to quell a group of violent people in the Ajanur beach locality falling under Ajanur grama panchayat.
Chittarikkal, having sizeable migrant Christian families, reported skirmishes between rival camps.
4 dead
Four persons were reported dead in separate places on the polling day on Monday after they collapsed near the polling booths.
Madhur mandalam Congress president C.C. Padmanabhan, 59, collapsed and died as he was moving towards a polling booth at Uliyathadukka, near here, around 6.30 a.m. Sudheesh, 28, a booth agent, died as he was moving out of the polling station at Panathady some 35 km from Kanhangad.
M.A. Shaameer, 35, collapsed and died moments after he left the polling station after casting his vote. A 75-year-old woman Karichi died shortly after casting her vote at a booth in Kayyur-Cheemeni panchayat.
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