INDIAN ELECTIONS

The BJP may be in electoral trouble in the current round of voting, according to exit polls. Today the Supreme Court refused to stop the ongoing publication of exit poll results.

For some regional flavor:

• Newindpress urges state authorities in Srinagar to keep the polling places safe from sectarian and separatist violence, and the Deccan Herald discusses security efforts there


• the Deccan Herald surveys the colorful (and sometimes criminal) campaign landscape in the depressed eastern state of Bihar


• Deepika notes that turnout is low so far in Karnataka


• and in Orissa voting is peaceful but turnout figures are not available yet, according to NewKerala.