Voting begins in 475 Meeting constituencies in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam, Bengal, and Puducherry.
Polling started at 7 am on Tuesday for one of many busiest days within the ongoing Meeting election in all 4 states and one Union Territory – West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Polling is being held for a complete of 475 of the whole 824 meeting constituencies throughout the states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union territory of Puducherry.
Whereas for West Bengal, the day marks the third in an eight-phase election, in Assam it’s the third and last section of voting. The remaining states/UT –Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry are witnessing a single-phase polling. Counting for all of the polls can be held on Could 2.
The polling in West Bengal and Assam had commenced from March 27. The final section of West Bengal polls will tackle April 29. The counting of votes for elections to 4 states and one UT can be held on Could 2.
As many as 18.68 crore electors will forged vote at 2.7 lakh polling stations in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Puducherry, Arora had mentioned throughout a press convention right here.
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Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan arrives at a polling boot to forged his vote
Kannur: Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan arrives at a polling sales space in Pinarayi to forged his vote#KeralaElections pic.twitter.com/Uy3XvLpatw
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
Modi appeals to folks to ‘vote in document numbers’
Meeting polls: PM Modi appeals to folks to ‘vote in document numbers’
Learn @ANI Story | https://t.co/TCdRpeyn7d pic.twitter.com/pWXdOC5HfU
— ANI Digital (@ani_digital) April 6, 2021
Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram casts vote
“Our secular progressive alliance is all set for a landslide victory as folks of Tamil Nadu need a change,” he says
#TamilNaduElections | Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram casts vote in polling sales space Chittal Achi Memorial Excessive Faculty in Kandanur, Sivaganga district
“Our secular progressive alliance is all set for a landslide victory as folks of Tamil Nadu need a change,” he says pic.twitter.com/TY4Ii4qZeI
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
Actor Rajinikanth casts vote at a polling sales space in Stella Maris of Thousand Lights constituency
Chennai: Actor Rajinikanth casts vote at a polling sales space in Stella Maris of Thousand Lights constituency#TamilNaduElections pic.twitter.com/PRPGVKE8kv
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan, his daughters Shruti Haasan and Akshara Haasan stand in a queue as they await their flip to forged vote.
Tamil Nadu: Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan, his daughters Shruti Haasan & Akshara Haasan stand in a queue as they await their flip to forged vote. Visuals from Chennai Excessive Faculty, Teynampet in Chennai.#TamilNaduElections pic.twitter.com/7zjjcGUjVV
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
Kerala: ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan arrives at a polling station in Ponnani to forged his vote
Kerala: ‘Metro Man’ E Sreedharan arrives at a polling station in Ponnani to forged his vote within the single-phase #AssemblyElections2021 of the state
He’s BJP’s candidate from Palakkad pic.twitter.com/VkxhI7JISX
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
West Bengal: Polling but to start in Arambag, Hooghly
West Bengal: Polling but to start at sales space quantity 129 of AC 200 in Arambag, Hooghly. Voters proceed to face in a queue. #WestBengalPolls pic.twitter.com/PGbE8NehZl
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
Right here is all you must know concerning the polling within the 4 states and Puducherry:
Assam
The time period of the 14th legislative meeting of Assam is as much as Could 31, 2021. The Meeting elections for 126 seats are being held in three phases. First section occurred on March 27, second section occurred on April 1 and the ultimate section of the Assam polls is being held immediately.
In 2016 Meeting polls have been held in two phases.
This section will resolve the destiny of 337 candidates throughout 40 constituencies of 12 districts within the state, together with the senior minister and Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) chief Hemanta Biswa Sarma within the Jalukbari constituency.
There are a complete of 12 feminine candidates and 325 male candidates within the fray, whose fates can be determined by 79,19,641 basic electors within the third section. Of those, 40,11,539 are males, 39,07,963 females and 139 are different genders. There are additionally 24,460 are service voters.
Aside from Hemanta Biswa Sarma, BJP minister Chandra Mohan Patowary from Dharampur, schooling minister Siddhartha Bhattacharya from Gauhati East, and BJP state chief Ranjeet Kumar Dass from Patacharkuchi are additionally within the fray within the state.
The fates of Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate Phanibhushan Choudhary from Bongaigaon, Bodoland Individuals’s Entrance’s (BPF) Pramila Rani Brahma from Kokrajhar-East, and Chandan Brahma from Sidli, impartial candidate and Lok Sabha MP Naba Hira Kumar Sarania from Barama may even be determined.
From BJP, MLAs Atul Bora from Dispur, and Suman Haripriya from Hajo are additionally within the fray. The destiny of sitting Congress MLA Rekibuddin Ahmed, former AGP MLA Kamala Kalita from Chaygaon, and Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) working president Pabindra Deka from Pathacharkuchi may even be determined within the third section.
Barama constituency, from the place Kokrajhar’s Lok Sabha MP Naba Kumar Sarania is contesting the polls as an Impartial candidate may even go into polling within the final section.
Kerala
The election for 140-member Kerala Meeting in 14 districts is being held in a single section on April 6.
The tenure of the 14th Kerala legislative meeting will come to an finish on June 1, 2021. A complete of two,67,88,268 electors will elect the candidates in Kerala for the fifteenth legislative meeting.
For Meeting ballot 2021, the variety of polling cubicles in Kerala has been prolonged from 21,498 to 40,771. The counting of votes can be held on Could 2.
In accordance with the fee, of the 140 Meeting seats, 14 seats are reserved for SC class and two are reserved for ST class candidates.
The state is dominated by the Left Democratic Entrance (LDF), which had received 91 seats within the 2016 Meeting elections defeating the United Democratic Entrance that bagged solely 47 seats. BJP-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance, the third constituent within the triangular contest the state is headed into. The presence of the BJP, which is positioning itself as a political various with candidates just like the Metroman ‘E Sreedharan’ will influence the makes an attempt made by each the LDF and the UDF to swing the constituencies to their favour.
A string of excessive profile campaigners like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani, Nirmala Sitharaman Union Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi, CPI(M) leaders Brinda Karat, Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury, and lots of extra nationwide leaders campaigned for his or her events.
Puducherry
Polling for 30 meeting seats in Puducherry is being held immediately. Of the 30 Meeting seats, 5 are reserved for the Scheduled Caste candidates. As many as 10,02,589 electors will select the candidates for the 15 legislative Meeting of Puducherry.
The Congress-led authorities within the Union Territory fell earlier than finishing its five-year time period below the Chief Minister V Narayansamy.
Narayanasamy had resigned on February 22 forward of a flooring take a look at within the 33-member Home (together with three nominated) following the resignations of 5 Congress and one Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) legislators. On February 23, President Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation of Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy and his council of ministers.
Kiran Bedi was changed as Puducherry L-G with Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan being given the extra cost of the Union Territory.
Campaigning for meeting polls in Puducherry ended on Sunday with all of the gamers together with the NDA and Congress-DMK alliances placing of their finest efforts to woo voters in 30 meeting seats for the polls on April 6.
The Union Territory is witnessing a tricky battle basically between these two alliances. The Nationwide Democratic Alliance within the Puducherry is a uncommon case the place the BJP isn’t the most important constituent of the alliance. The BJP is contesting on 9 seats with the alliance led by the All India NR Congress contesting on 16 seats, and the AIADMK on 5 seats.
The Congress, whose authorities within the Union Territory fell in February earlier than finishing its five-year time period below the Chief Minister V Narayansamy, has additionally ceded its floor to its allies in Puducherry, giving 13 seats to the DMK and one every to the Communist Get together of India and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi. The social gathering skipped fielding former Chief Minister Narayanasamy and is contesting on solely 14 out of its 15 seats.
Congress has not fielded any candidate from Yanam constituency, the second seat from the place AINRC chief N Rangasamy is contesting. To Narayanasamy, the social gathering has given the duty of marketing campaign and election administration.
Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu meeting elections is being held immediately in a single section.
Chennai: Actor Rajinikanth casts vote at a polling sales space in Stella Maris of Thousand Lights constituency#TamilNaduElections pic.twitter.com/PRPGVKE8kv
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
The time period of the fifteenth legislative meeting in Tamil Nadu is ending on Could 2. As many as 6,28,23,749 electors will select candidates for the sixteenth legislative meeting in Tamil Nadu.
#TamilNaduElections | Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram casts vote in polling sales space Chittal Achi Memorial Excessive Faculty in Kandanur, Sivaganga district
“Our secular progressive alliance is all set for a landslide victory as folks of Tamil Nadu need a change,” he says pic.twitter.com/TY4Ii4qZeI
— ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2021
Ruling All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) is contesting the ballot in a pre-poll alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP). MK Stalin’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has joined fingers with Congress. This time actor-turned-politician Kamal Hassan’s social gathering Makkal Neethi Maiam (MNM) and T. T. V. Dhinakaran’s Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AMMK) can be within the fray.
Polling throughout 234 Meeting constituencies in 38 districts of Tamil Nadu will start at 7 am on Tuesday. A complete of three,998 candidates are within the ballot fray. In view of COVID-19, the variety of polling stations has been elevated to 88,937. The counting of votes can be carried out on Could 2.
The state is witnessing a fierce battle between arch-rivals All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). MK Stalin-led DMK, which is out of energy since 2011 within the state, is in a head-to-head battle with ruling social gathering AIADMK in practically 130 constituencies.
The AIADMK launched scathing assaults in opposition to the DMK for practising dynastic politics and promised growth. On the opposite aspect, Stalin has known as the AIADMK authorities a slave to the BJP and alleged corruption throughout its tenure. Stalin mentioned the AIDMK authorities has taken Tamil Nadu again 50 years.
In Tamil Nadu, the folks have historically seen the DMK and the AIADMK maintain energy alternately since 1967. Nevertheless, AIADMK emerged victorious within the final two Meeting elections. That is the primary Meeting elections being held with out two veterans of Tamil Nadu politics, M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa.
West Bengal: Within the excessive stake West Bengal polls, voting for this section can be held in 31 Meeting constituencies in three districts – eight in Hooghly, seven in Howrah and 16 in South 24 Parganas.
There are 205 candidates within the fray on this spherical of polling, with Diamond Harbour having the utmost variety of candidates at 11.
Among the many most high-profile candidates, it’s BJP’s Swapan Dasgupta contesting from Tarakeswar constituency in Hooghly. Dasgupta, a famous journalist and a Padma Bhushan awardee has been a Rajya Sabha member who resigned not too long ago to contest the Meeting polls.
Within the Arambagh constituency, TMC has fielded Sujata Mondal Khan in opposition to CPI(M)’s Sakti Mohan Malik and BJP’s Madhusudhan Bag. The attention-grabbing reality is Sujata Mondal Khan is the spouse of BJP MP Saumitra Khan.
Of the three districts, South 24 Parganas has a major significance for each the highest events within the fray – Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP). Diamond Harbour is the parliamentary constituency of TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Within the 2016 Meeting elections, TMC had bagged 29 seats and the Left Entrance received two seats out of those 31 seats in South Parganas. Speaking about vote share within the final Meeting election, TMC had secured 50 per cent, the Left Entrance had 37 per cent and the BJP acquired 7 per cent.
On this section out of the whole variety of electorates, 39,93,280 are males, 38,58,902 are girls and 243 are of different genders. There are 8,840 polling stations and a couple of,391 auxiliary polling stations all through the 31 constituencies. There are 10,871 Management Items, VVPATs and Poll Items individually.
For the Meeting Elections 2021, the Election Fee has issued a protocol for voting. All ballot officers can be vaccinated in opposition to Covid-19 earlier than elections for 5 meeting polls, the fee mentioned.
ECI pointers for the upcoming elections include– door-to-door campaigning to be restricted to 5 individuals together with the candidate, polling officers to be vaccinated, separate norms for suspected Covid-19 sufferers.
