NEW DELHI: The stage is set for a fierce electoral battle in the states of West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Union Territory Puducherry as the Election Commission on Friday announced the poll schedule for Assembly polls in the four states and the one UT. The voting for five Assembly elections will begin on March 27 and counting of votes for the four states and one UT will be done on May 2.
As many as 18.68 crore voters will be eligible to cast their votes at 2.7 lakh polling stations for 824 Assembly seats across Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
The elections in four states and one UT is seen as a litmus test for BJP and its opponents — mainly Congress — as the saffron party is leaving no stone unturned to win a ‘significant’ number of seats in all the poll-bound states and UT. In a surprise move, the Commission announced that Assembly elections for 294 seats in West Bengal will be held in eight phases – one more than the last Assembly poll.
Apart from West Bengal, the other state that will have more than one phase polling is Assam as the voting in the BJP-ruled north-eastern state will be conducted in three phases starting from March 27, April 1 and end on April 6, while polling in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry will take place in a single phase on April 6.
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