Coimbatore, April 23 -- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former state president K Annamalai on Thursday cast his vote at a polling station located in PSG College of Arts and Science in Coimbatore as polling for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections is underway.

The BJP leader arrived to exercise his franchise amid tight security arrangements at the polling station. Voting is being held across the state with voters turning up in large numbers since morning to participate in the democratic exercise.

Earlier, the leader of Opposition in the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly and AIADMK General Secretary and candidate from Edappadi constituency, Edappadi K. Palaniswami, exercised his franchise at the Panchayat Union Primary School polling s...