KOLKATA, April 21 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) ended their campaign for the April 23 first-phase Bengal polls for 152 seats on Tuesday, exchanging sharp verbal attacks amid reports of clashes among supporters from some districts.

The campaign for the first phase was marked by a large number of political rallies, a social media overdrive and door-to-door canvassing by the two parties.

Much of the campaign revolved around the contentious Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the food choices of West Bengal's voters, with the fish-eating habit of Bengalis moving from humble household plates to politics.

Unlike the 142 south Bengal assembly constituencies going to the polls in the secon...