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  • Elections 2021 Live Updates: SC refuses to entertain petition in search of CBI investigation into Mamata Nandigram assault

    People queue as much as vote on the Diamond Harbour constituency in West Bengal. (Express picture by Shashi Ghosh)
    The Election Commission Thursday issued a discover to BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari for ‘communal overtones’ of his speech made on March 29 geared toward Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
    Addressing a ballot rally in West Bengal’s Damjur, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday mentioned the Election Commission might serve her ten notices however she would solely urge individuals to vote unitedly with none division. “How many complaints have been filed against Narendra Modi? He does Hindu-Muslim every day,” ANI quoted her as saying.
    Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath claimed that West Bengal isn’t a secure place for ladies beneath the TMC authorities and if the BJP involves energy, anti-romeo squads could be shaped within the state similar to UP.
    BJP President JP Nadda held three roadshows in Alipurduar, Dinhata, and Mekliganj forward of the fourth and remaining section of the Assembly elections within the state.

  • Assembly Elections 2021 Live Updates: PM Modi to deal with rallies in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry at this time

    Meanwhile in Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday hit out at her protege-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari and his father Sisir Adhikari, saying the household “will remain “na ghar ka, na ghat ka [neither here nor there]” after the Assembly elections.
    Suvendu joined the Opposition get together final December and was adopted subsequently by his youngest brother Soumendu and his father. Banerjee is contesting the polls in opposition to Suvendu in Nandigram, the place an anti-land acquisition motion over a decade in the past propelled her to energy in 2011. Suvendu was an in depth affiliate of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief on the time.
    The chief minister made the remarks slamming the Adhikaris at an occasion in Nandigram. The chief minister additionally accused the BJP and Suvendu Adhikari of indulging in hooliganism in Nandigram, claiming they had been afraid of dropping the election.
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    In Kerala, a day after BJP Rajya Sabha member and actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi remarked that he needed to see IUML candidate Okay N A Khadar win the Gurvayur Assembly seat — the place the BJP candidate’s nomination was rejected —  Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan kicked up a contemporary spherical of allegations of a ballot understanding between the Congress-led UDF and the BJP.
    Reacting to Gopi’s remarks, Vijayan on Monday mentioned: “This is a deal among Congress, IUML and BJP. Suresh Gopi is not a seasoned politician. Other BJP leaders would not publicly disclose such secrets. When BJP says that an IUML candidate should emerge the winner, don’t think it is not aimed at the benefit of either Congress or IUML,” mentioned Vijayan.

  • Assembly Election 2021 Live: PM Modi to handle rallies in Bengal, Assam; BJP to launch Bengal manifesto

    On marketing campaign, Stalin reminds NDA: Do not overlook that is land of Periyar, Anna, Kamaraj, Kalaignar
    It’s 10.30 am, and M Ok Stalin, DMK supremo and the party-led alliance’s Chief Ministerial candidate, has already arrived for his marketing campaign rally for the primary Assembly ballot with out the 2 Dravidian stalwarts – M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa.
    However, as was seen through the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the 2 leaders nonetheless determine prominently within the marketing campaign, which, on the similar time, has changed into a Stalin versus Edappadi Ok Palaniswami contest.
    In BJP Bengal record, 36 joined the occasion over final six months
    OF THE 282 candidates introduced by the BJP to date for Assembly polls in West Bengal, 46 are those that joined the saffron occasion lower than two years in the past after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. A bulk of them — 34 candidates — are from the Trinamool Congress, six from the CPM, 4 from Congress and one every from Forward Bloc and Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).
    The collection of candidates has led to large-scale protests throughout the state in nearly each district, and the anger that has manifested itself within the streets is not only for having given tickets to those that joined the BJP just lately. Infighting inside the BJP has additionally sparked protests after the discharge of the record.
    Kerala polls: UDF manifesto guarantees Rs 6,000 a month for the poor, Rs 2,000 for homemakers 
    In thrust on social safety and welfare schemes, the Opposition Congress-led UDF Saturday unveiled its manifesto for the April 6 meeting elections, promising a month-to-month revenue of Rs 6,000 for the destitute households, a rise of month-to-month welfare pensions to Rs 3,000, laws for shielding the curiosity of the trustworthy at Sabarimala temple and 5 kg of free rice to all non-priority ration card holders.
    Congress MP and chairman of UDF manifesto committee Benny Behnan, who launched the manifesto, stated the ballot doc is aimed toward constructing a affluent Kerala.

  • Election LIVE Updates: TMC alleges BJP conspiracy to kill Mamata; First girl in 25 years in IUML checklist

    Election LIVE updates: Statewise seats distribution.
    BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari on Friday filed his nomination from the Nandigram Assembly constituency in opposition to his mentor-turned-opponent Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, and stated he was “100 per cent” assured of his win. Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Smriti Irani additionally took half within the rally earlier than Adhikari filed the nomination papers. “I am 100 per cent confident of my victory in Nandigram. The people of the area are with me. I am the son of the soil,” he advised reporters.
    Two days after CM Mamata Banerjee suffered an damage in Nandigram, Trinamool Congress delegation of six MPs in a proper grievance to the Election Commission alleged a “deep rooted BJP conspiracy”  behind the assault and requested for an “immediate and unbiased” investigation of the identical. The delegation contains TMC MPs Dereck O’Brien, Saugata Roy, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli G. Dastidar, Pratima Mondal and Santunu Sen.

    The BJP’s West Bengal marketing campaign consists of many elements. An important one is the little-known Shiv Prakash, an RSS pracharak deputed to the celebration in 2014 quickly after he had overseen its sweep of Western Uttar Pradesh within the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. With former ABVP chief Arvind Menon, Prakash has set the framework for the BJP within the state, working behind the scenes.
    In December, Prakash, 53, was requested by BJP president J P Nadda to maneuver his headquarters from Delhi, and provides “special attention” to Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, moreover West Bengal. However, within the high-stakes battle for Bengal, he has been virtually completely stationed in Bengal. “After coming to the BJP I have spent more than 60% time in the state,” Prakash advised The Indian Express.

    The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the second largest celebration within the Congress-led UDF, on Friday introduced candidates for 25 Assembly seats, fielding a lady after greater than 20 years.
    The celebration’s tally within the alliance, in the meantime, is as much as 27, from 24 within the final elections, after the exit of the Kerala Congress (M) and Loktantrik Janata Dal from the UDF. The candidates for 2 seats (Chadayamangalam and Punalur) could be introduced later.
    The Congress, which is contesting at the least 90 seats, has not introduced its checklist of candidates but.

    Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal goes into the Assembly elections on the head of a authorities that has held agency floor even because the state battled contentious points just like the preparation of the National Register of Citizens and the Citizenship (Amendment) Act. He spoke to The Indian Express on Thursday night time at his official residence in Guwahati on a variety of points pertaining to his authorities and the elections. Excerpts:

  • Election LIVE Updates: Mamata’s assessments detected accidents to her ankle, proper shoulder, neck, says physician

    Election LIVE Updates: Mamata’s assessments detected accidents to her ankle, proper shoulder, neck, says physician

  • Assembly Elections 2021 Live Updates: Actor Mithun Chakraborty joins BJP forward of Bengal polls

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and former state minister-turned-BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari. (File Photo)

    Over the years, West Bengal and the nation have discovered to not underestimate Mamata Banerjee. A fiery chief in disarming sari and chappals, she took lathis and extra to do the not possible and topple the Left Front within the state. A decade therefore, Mamata finds herself in the identical spot, and the nation is once more watching. Does the two-time Chief Minister nonetheless have the battle in her to cease one other opponent, far mightier, over the course of an election unfold out longer than a month, aiming for what not appears not possible?
    If the Trinamool supremo retains energy, she would be part of the handful of political leaders within the nation to have defeated the Narendra Modi-led BJP, cementing her place as one of many tallest Opposition leaders at a time that the Congress is doddering. If the BJP wins, West Bengal would be part of the record of states the get together sees as essential to its ideological framework to go its method.

    At a time when the Congress is locked in a bitter tussle with the DMK over seat-sharing in Tamil Nadu, there’s pressure within the get together in Assam over allocation of seats to accomplice AIUDF.
    There have been tense scenes and slogan-shouting by a bit of the get together staff on the Congress workplace, within the presence of get together chief Ripun Bora and Mahila Congress nationwide president Sushmita Dev, in Guwahati on Saturday. Sources mentioned Dev is upset over the allocation of some seats to the AIUDF in her stronghold of Barak Valley.
    Of the 15 Assembly seats in Barak Valley, comprising the Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi districts, the Congress had received three final time whereas the AIUDF had received 4. All the three seats in Hailakandi district have been received by AIUDF and the get together is claiming these as a part of the seat-sharing deal.
     

  • Assembly Elections 2021 Live: EC seeks report on Trinamool’s grievance about PM’s picture on vaccine certificates

    According to a functionary, the Chief Election Officer has been directed to file a report back to confirm the TMC’s grievance, PTI reported. The EC has additionally requested the Health Ministry to weigh in on the grievance.
    Assembly Elections 2021 Live: The Election Commission (EC) has sought a report from the Chief Election Officer in West Bengal following the Trinamool Congress’ grievance towards using Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s {photograph} on Covid vaccination certificates within the state. The celebration claimed that utilizing the picture was in violation of the mannequin code. 
    According to a functionary, the Chief Election Officer has been directed to file a report back to confirm the TMC’s grievance, PTI reported. The EC has additionally requested the Health Ministry to weigh in on the grievance. 
    “We want to ascertain the facts first. For instance, whether these certificates are indeed being distributed on the instructions of the Health Ministry. As a matter of routine, we always seek a response from all the involved parties in such complaints,” an EC official stated. 
    Meanwhile in Assam, the Congress hopes to offer incumbent BJP a troublesome combat. For the primary time in latest historical past, the celebration has tasked its chief ministers with election duties to show the nook in different states — Chhattisgarh’s Bhupesh Baghel in Assam and Rajasthan’s Ashok Gehlot in Bengal.
    According to sources, Baghel plans to copy the Chhattisgarh mannequin within the poll-bound state. His three key advisors — Vinod Verma, Ruchir Garg and Rajesh Tiwari — are stationed in Assam, and over two dozen groups comprising native Congress leaders from Chhattisgarh have been moved to Assam to supervise the election efforts.
    Down South, the saffron celebration introduced that it was nominating E Sreedharan, popularly generally known as the ‘Metro Man’, because the the celebration’s chief minister candidate for the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections. Sreedharan, 88, joined the BJP final week.

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  • Assembly Elections 2021 Live Updates: ‘We’ll be there wherever Mamata Banerjee wants us,’ says Tejashwi Yadav

    Assembly Elections 2021 Live Updates: ‘We’ll be there wherever Mamata Banerjee wants us,’ says Tejashwi Yadav