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  • 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: 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

  • Assembly Elections 2021 dates LIVE: EC to declare ballot schedule for West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Puducherry at present

    The Election Commission will announce the dates at 4.30 PM at present.
    The phrases of the legislative assemblies of the 4 states are coming to an finish in May-June.
    In Puducherry, President’s Rule has been imposed and the meeting saved underneath suspended animation after the V Narayanasamy-led Congress authorities resigned earlier this week forward of a vote of confidence.
    In Bengal, firms of central safety forces started arriving this week. It was reported that by February 25, not less than 125 firms will arrive within the state to take care of legislation and order through the election marketing campaign. According to Election Commission (EC) officers, there might be 60 firms of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), 30 firms of the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), 25 firms of the Border Security Force (BSF) and 5 firms every of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP).
    Whereas, in Tamil Nadu, eager to wrest energy from the ruling AIADMK within the forthcoming elections, the DMK has began distributing utility varieties in search of aspirants wishing to contest the polls on the celebration’s image – the ‘rising sun’. The means of handing out utility varieties has been underway since February 17.