Chennai, April 23 -- Brisk turnout was witnessed and prominent personalities are among the early birds to cast their ballots as the single phase polling to elect 234 members to the Tamil Nadu Assembly began at 0700 hrs and was progressing peacefully.
Barring minor hitches in EVMs in a few booths led to slight delay in the commencement of polling process, beforethey were either rectified of replaced, as people, especially women, queued up in large numbers to exercise their democratic right.
Among the early birds to cast their ballots included AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, who heads the NDA and also the CM face of Front, BJP Mylapore candidate and former Lt Governor of Puducherry and Telangana Ms Tamilisai Soundararajan, ...