The overall voting percentage for the fifth phase of West Bengal polls till 9 am was 19.64 per cent.

In Kolkata, prominent personalities, including cricketer Sourav Ganguly and Netaji's grandnephew and Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Chandra Kumar Bose, cast their votes in the crucial fifth phase.

Meanwhile in Arambag, Hooghly, workers of the Trinamool Congress and the Communist Party of India-Marxists clashed, in which one CPI-M supporter was injured.

The CPI-M alleged that the TMC supporters threatened people to not vote.

Image: Cricketer Sourav Ganguly at a polling booth in Kolkata on Saturday. Photograph: ANI