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A full of 17.4 crore voters are eligible to instrumentality portion successful the forthcoming Assembly elections successful 4 States — Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam and Kerala, and 1 Union Territory, Puducherry, to elite 824 MLAs, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said present connected Sunday (March 15, 2026).
Addressing a property conference, Mr. Kumar besides said that voting volition beryllium held astatine 2.19 lakh polling stations crossed the 4 States and Union Territories portion 25 lakh predetermination officials volition beryllium connected work to guarantee escaped and just elections.
"A full of 17.4 crore voters are eligible to ballot successful elections to 5 assemblies with 824 constituencies," helium said, flanked by 2 Election Commissioners — Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.
He said the fig of full voters of the 4 States and Union Territories is equivalent to the colonisation of Australia, France, South Africa, Germany and Canada.
Mr. Kumar said axenic electoral rolls signifier the bedrock of our ideology and hence nary eligible elector should beryllium near out, and nary ineligible elector should beryllium included successful the electoral rolls.
He besides congratulated booth level officers (BLOs) for doing bully enactment during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of elector lists.
The CEC said representatives of the canvass bodies of 20 countries volition sojourn the poll-bound states to get the acquisition of India's "Festival of Democracy".
