Kolkata, May 4 -- Union Minister Bhupendra Yadav on Monday arrived at the Bharatiya Janata Party office in Kolkata as the vote counting for the West Bengal Assembly elections is underway.

As per the early trends in West Bengal, the pendulum has been consistently swinging in a close contest between the BJP and the TMC.

The BJP-led NDA is ahead with leads in abou 109 seats, while the TMC shows about 106 leads as per early trends. The EC is yet to release any early trends

In Keralam, a close contest is unfolding between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), with both sides inching past 60 leads each.

These figures reflect initial postal ballot trends, with counting of Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) votes...