Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, April 14 -- The provisional turnout in the recently concluded Kerala assembly elections stood at 79.63%, with service votes yet to be tallied, state's chief electoral officer Rathan U Kelkar said on Monday. The turnout is the state's best in nearly three decades. The CEO's clarification came amid criticism from political parties, including the CPI(M) and the Congress, that the figures of the final voter turnout in the state were not being published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on time. Kelkar rejected any "undue delay" in the release of the final turnout data, while underscoring that EC had acted at the maximum possible speed in collating and publishing the data. "The figures will be published as s...