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Assembly Elections 2021 Highlights: Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and the Union Territory of Puducherry are heading for assembly elections over the next few weeks. Polling will happen in a single phase in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on April 6. While voters in Assam will cast their ballots in three phases, polling in Bengal will happen across eight phases. The first phase of voting happened on March 27. The second phase will take place tomorrow. With that, the
Mamata Banerjee writes to opposition leaders, says ‘time has come for united struggle against BJP's attacks on democracy’
Kerala | Can Pinarayi Vijayan buck the trend of alternating LDF, UDF rule?
Bengal: Focus back on Nandigram as Suvendu Adhikari, Mamata Banerjee fight for political survival
BJP won’t allow Assam to become infiltrators’ hub again, says Amit Shah
Assembly Polls: Facebook says it is taking steps to curb hate speech, misinformation
800 companies of security forces to be deployed in Bengal for polling tomorrow
‘PM Modi lies to India all 24 hours’, says Rahul Gandhi in Assam
Will make Assam flood-free in five years: Amit Shah
Assam | Centre will implement all promises made in Bodo agreement before 2022: Amit Shah
Tamil Nadu | Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to campaign on April 3, visit Sriperumbudur where her father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated
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Will set up peace and harmony department in Kerala to ensure political murders stop: Congress’ Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
Christian community also feels ‘love jihad’ is serious issue in Kerala: BJP state unit chief
Assam | We aren’t BJP, we fulfil our promises: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi
DMK won’t have it easy as AIADMK won’t give up without a fight
BJP leader Amit Shah to address three poll rallies in Assam today
Defeat 'undemocratic' TMC, 'communal BJP': Former Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharya
Kerala | Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacks LDF, BJP
Assam: Congress asks EC to ban BJP's Himanta Biswa Sarma from campaigning
West Bengal: 22 companies of central forces to be deployed in Nandigram
Puducherry: Congress' V Narayanasamy rules out possibility of being CM
EC directs West Bengal’s chief poll officer to transfer Circle Inspector of Mahishadal, Purba Medinipur
EC issues notice to DMK’s A Raja for alleged derogatory remarks against Tamil Nadu CM
Can Barak Valley pay BJP the dividend of CAA bid?
Assam | Congress so helpless that they’re taking AIUDF's support to stay politically alive: BJP’s Smriti Irani
How things are stacked in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry
How things are stacked in Bengal, Kerala
How things are stacked in Assam
LIVE Updates: Assembly Elections 2021 campaign
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Everyone has right to unite with like-minded people, but gathering everyone against BJP is an indication that your ship is sinking.There's a saying in English,'Save our souls or Save our ship'. Mamata Ji has accepted her ship is sinking,it's an effort to save it:BJP chief
#WATCH| Everyone has right to unite with like-minded people, but gathering everyone against BJP is an indication that your ship is sinking.There's a saying in English,'Save our souls or Save our ship'. Mamata Ji has accepted her ship is sinking,it's an effort to save it:BJP chief pic.twitter.com/RF1fVSTMOI
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2021
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has asked for Opposition parties' support. We support her fully. Sharad Pawar was supposed to campaign from April 1-3 in WB, but his tour has been cancelled due to illness. If he recovers, he may campaign in the last phase: NCP leader Nawab Malik
#WATCH: Tamil Nadu Minister and AIADMK candidate from Royapuram Assembly constituency, D Jayakumar irons clothes as he campaigns in the constituency today.#TamilNaduElections2021 pic.twitter.com/Hm9AQ29IKP
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2021
2 days ago an LDF leader made a sexist remark about women...It was beginning to sound to me like CPM was taking campaign lessons from CMs of Uttarakhand & UP.... I want to tell them, "You don't tell us what to wear&whom to love": Congress' Priyanka GV in Thrissur, Kerala
#WATCH | 2 days ago an LDF leader made a sexist remark about women...It was beginning to sound to me like CPM was taking campaign lessons from CMs of Uttarakhand & UP.... I want to tell them, "You don't tell us what to wear&whom to love": Congress' Priyanka GV in Thrissur, Kerala pic.twitter.com/ApO4eu2d1u
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2021
Congress is not a cadre-based party like CPM. It's a people-based party. Right from its inception, its politics has been about people. It was Congress that gave the call for Kerala to be united in 1921 : Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Thrissur, Kerala
If infiltration is taking place in West Bengal from Bangladesh as alleged by the BJP, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the BSFs director general should resign as securing the countrys border is their duty and not of the Mamata Banerjee administration, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee said on Wednesday.
Abhishek Banerjee claimed that the Narendra Modi government failed to fulfil its promise of reopening closed tea gardens of north Bengal but at least five such gardens have resumed functioning following the intervention of the chief minister.
"Who is responsible for infiltration in West Bengal? Is it the BSF or the state police? I would say Home Minister Amit Shah and the DG of the BSF should step down as they are not successful in handling the issue. What is the use of pointing fingers at Mamata Banerjee?" he said.
West Bengal: BJP national president JP Nadda campaigns for Baishali Dalmiya, the party's candidate from Bally constituency in Howrah district. pic.twitter.com/naBtevVPFw
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2021
"We call upon you to immediately intervene & direct necessary steps to be taken by police," reads TMC's letter.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) writes to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal over, "harboring of criminals by Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram".
— ANI (@ANI) March 31, 2021
"We call upon you to immediately intervene & direct necessary steps to be taken by police," reads the letter. pic.twitter.com/kOOKALxAvE
TMC writes to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal over, "harboring of criminals by Suvendu Adhikari in Nandigram", reports ANI.
We can never forget that the first person to support our former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee to form the govt was Jayalalitha Ji. Inspired by the ideals of MGR, we will work for the empowerment of weaker sections of society.The DMK tries to gain votes on communal basis. But the BJP does not do politics of caste, creed, and religion. We do politics of humanity and justice. We firmly believe in justice for all and appeasement of none:Defence Min & BJP leader Rajnath Singh in Thalli, Tamil Nadu
