Quarter of Tripura voters cast ballot

"In some polling booths, due to technical snags of EVMs (Electronic Voting Machine), the voting was delayed for sometime, but the engineers rectified them and the balloting started as usual," Jindal said.

Election in the tribal reserved Tripura East constituency will be held April 12.

According to Jindal, 1.2 million voters are eligible to vote Monday to pick a Lok Sabha member from 13 candidates, including a woman. Almost all the candidates are first-time contenders.

In 2009, the CPI-M's Khagen Das won the seat defeating Congress's Sudip Roy Barman, state's opposition leader.

This time the main battle in the constituency will be between CPI-M's trade union leader Sankar Prasad Datta and Congress' Arunoday Saha, a former vice chancellor of Tripura University, a central varsity.