AGARTALA, April 11 (TIWN): Open Election rigging are going on across Tripura, outside the booth, inside the booths. After being unable to cast votes, even many BJP supporters have slammed Election Commission for supporting BJP in poll-rigging. In few booths, opposition polling agents were sent out of the booths by beating and in few booths “shockingly” in front of BJP agents they had to cast vote in “Lotus”. Rapists of democracy Chief Minister Biplab Deb in support of murderer MP candidate Pratima Bhowmik has launched organized poll rigging in help of polling personnel and unfortunately CEO Sriram Taranikanti has been muted on such violence. A girl who was in facebook live cited example how facebook live can help a citizens to cast their votes as after seeing her in live, BJP hooligans escaped from the spot. Netizens have slammed BJP for such massive poll rigging and raping democracy. This is not Election, this can not be called Election. Tripura has demanded Re-Polling.

Voting began on Thursday across 91 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 20 states and Union Territories as the first phase of the mega seven-phase electoral exercise kicked off.

Voting for electing Assemblies in Andhra Pradesh, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Odisha (first phase) also started along with polling for Lok Sabha constituencies. In these states, voters will cast two votes each.

In 10 states and two Union Territories -- Andhra Pradesh (25), Telangana (17), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Uttarakhand (5), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Sikkim (1), Lakshadweep (1), and Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), voting is happening in all parliamentary constituencies.

Polling also started in eight out of 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, including Saharanpur, Kairana, Ghaziabad, Baghpat and Gautam Buddha Nagar, four - Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada and Jamui - out of 40 seats in Bihar and two - Cooch Behar and Alipurduar - out of 42 seats in West Bengal.

Of Maharashtra's 48 constituencies, voting in the first phase is happening in seven constituencies of Vidharbha, with the focus on Nagpur -- the headquarters of the RSS -- and Chandrapur, the hometown of its chief Mohan Bhagwat.

In Telangana, key constituencies where voting started include Nizamabad, Nalgonda, Khammam and Hyderabad.

Voting also began in five constituencies in Assam, four in Odisha, two in Jammu and Kashmir (Jammu and Baramulla) and one each of Chhattisgarh (Bastar), Manipur (Outer Manipur), and Tripura (Tripura West).