Elections 2021: Votes might be counted for all states on Could 2. (Representational)
New Delhi:
At present is the final day of ballot marketing campaign in three states -Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala- and Puducherry, a union territory. As Assam and Bengal vote for third part on Tuesday, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry will vote in a single part.
- In Kerala, greater than 27 lakh persons are eligible to vote throughout the state. The ruling Left Democratic Entrance, the United Democratic Entrance, of which the Congress is part, and the BJP are the three key contenders which can be figthing in all 140 constituencies.
- Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who was elected as Lok Sabha MP from Kerala’s Wayanad in 2019, might be campaigning at the moment within the southern state.
In Assam, BJP chief and state minister Himanta Biswa Sarma will resume his marketing campaign after the Election Fee halved the ban on him from 48 to 24 hours. The ban was handed down late Friday night time for threatening to ship BPF chief Hagrama Mohilary, an opposition chief whose get together had previously allied together with his, to jail. On Tuesday, voting might be held in 40 seats in Assam.
Tamil Nadu too has witnessed a busy marketing campaign over the previous couple of weeks. Voting might be held for 234 seats within the state on Tuesday. The AIADMK-BJP mix is eyeing re-election because the DMK-Congress coalition, actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam, and TTV Dhinakaran’s Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam give it a troublesome combat.
On Tuesday, voting will even be held in Puducherry for 30 seats two months after the V Narayanasamy-led Congress authorities slipped into majority in an enormous embarrassment for the get together. Mr Narayanasamy accused the opposition BJP and NR Congress of bringing down his authorities and likewise blamed former Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi of “colluding with the opposition”.
Final month, the Madras Excessive Court docket needed to know if the Puducherry election might be deferred in gentle of allegations the BJP had wrongfully accessed and misused voters’ Aadhaar particulars, together with telephone numbers, for campaigning functions.
The Distinctive Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) knowledgeable the Madras Excessive Court docket on Wednesday that no Aadhaar knowledge, extra significantly the mobile phone numbers of voters in Puducherry, has been furnished to the BJP for campaigning for the April 6 elections.
In Bengal, polling might be held on Tuesday for the third part. The state has been witnessing a vitriolic marketing campaign in a closely-fought election between the ruling Trinamool Congress, the BJP and the Congress-Left alliance.
At present, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is in Bengal to marketing campaign for the BJP.
Final week, Mamata Banerjee urged Congress’s Sonia Gandhi, Sharad Pawar and several other different prime opposition leaders to unite in opposition to the BJP. The West Bengal Chief Minister was caught at a ballot sales space for 2 hours in Nandigram on Thursday as unprecedented chaos unfolded on the day second part of voting was held.
