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Jharkhand will kick off crucial assembly elections on Wednesday as 13.7 million people across 43 of its 81 seats vote in the first phase of polls and bypolls will be held in 32 seats across 10 states, marking the beginning of a high-stakes round of contests.

- HT Correspondents

In Jharkhand, 13,710,717 electors are eligible to vote across 15 districts, covering most of the tribal seats in Kolhan and South Chhotanagpur division, where issues of tribal identity, infiltration, reservation, and corruption dominated the campaign.

"Polling across 43 seats would be held from 7 am to 5 pm. Polling parties have reached all the stations," the state's chief electoral officer K Ravi Kumar said.