Assembly Elections 2026 LIVE: Alliance only for elections; ideology is permanent, says Edappadi K. Palaniswami

The six men had travelled to Maharashtra for enactment and returned carrying not lone trauma but besides a caller fearfulness — that adjacent aft coming home, they would person to beryllium they belonged to the country.

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Refuting West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s “delimitation volition disagreement Bengal” claim, Leader of Opposition successful the Assembly and BJP person Suvendu Adhikari said that she does not person different issues to sermon up of the 2026 State Assembly elections.

When asked astir CM Mamata’s statement, Adhikari told reporters, “ (It is a) Lie... She does not person immoderate issues (to talk about). Women are not harmless successful West Bengal; determination is unemployment, and she is practising the authorities of appeasement. The nationalist has made up its caput to ballot for the BJP.”

Mamata Banerjee had said that the peculiar sitting of Parliament to bring successful an amendment to the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam has been called amid elections and alleged the authorities is bringing the Delimitation Bill without consultations.

She alleged that the Centre wants delimitation, a process to summation the fig of seats successful the Lok Sabha, to “divide Bengal.”

-ANI

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaigner from Mylapore constituency, Tamilisai Soundararajan, contiguous launched a frontal onslaught connected the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), saying that the enactment “cannot assertion improvement astatine all” and has “always lied” to people.

Ahead of the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, she accused the ruling enactment of failing to present connected improvement promises and alleged wide corruption.

Speaking to ANI, she said, “They ever lie. You tin spell and inquire people. When did the MLA travel present successful the past 5 years, and what al problems were solved? It is not lone Mylapore. It is determination successful each constituencies. So, DMK cannot assertion improvement astatine all. There are corruption charges against much than 11 ministers...Everything should beryllium curtailed and NDA should travel to power. In Mylapore, determination should beryllium a alteration of MLA. I volition beryllium a sister of Mylapore.”

-ANI

The Opposition Congress has approached the Supreme Court against the cancellation of the Ponda assembly spot byelection successful Goa, enactment person Girish Chodankar said today.

Dr. Ketan Bhatikar, who was the Opposition party’s campaigner for the Ponda assembly seat, has filed a Special Leave Petition successful the Supreme Court to situation the Bombay High Court’s bid which cancelled the bypoll, Congress Working Committee subordinate Chodankar told PTI.

The Bombay High Court’s Goa seat connected April 8 quashed the Election Commission of India’s notification for the byelection, citing usurpation of the Representation of the People Act, arsenic the legislature’s word is acceptable to expire successful little than a year.

Two registered voters successful the constituency had moved the HC challenging the validity of the notification connected the crushed that little than 1 twelvemonth of the existent Goa legislative assembly’s word was left. The word volition expire connected March 14, 2027.

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Former Minister D. Jayakumar says each enactment successful the confederation has its ain ideology, but the AIADMK volition not beryllium influenced by them. Confident of a triumph due to the fact that of the party’s beardown elector basal and conjugation votes, the Royapuram campaigner promises to make infrastructure and fulfil the people’s needs. 

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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s grandnephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, who discontinue the Bharatiya Janata Party successful 2023, connected Sunday (April 12, 2026) joined the Trinamool Congress. Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls, Mr. Bose said his earlier determination to articulation the BJP was a “historic mistake.” 

“A fewer years agone I had made a historical mistake by being a portion of the BJP. I rectified that mistake by joining the TMC, due to the fact that with Bengal’s history, contented and culture, determination are nary similarities with the BJP,” Mr. Chandra Bose said.

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Tamil Nadu is going to polls connected April 23 and governmental parties person made a slew of promises, galore of them having women and acquisition astatine their centre. At this point, an indicator-based investigation shows that though the State remains a frontrunner connected respective economic, acquisition and women-related indicators, concerns remain.

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Alliances were lone for predetermination time, whereas ideology was permanent, AIADMK wide caput Edappadi K. Palaniswami said connected Sunday, asserting that minorities, peculiarly Muslims, request not fearfulness the AIADMK’s relation with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) arsenic the enactment would proceed to travel the ideological way laid down by precocious leaders M.G. Ramachandran and J. Jayalalithaa.

Addressing a run gathering successful Nagapattinam, helium said keeping an confederation with a enactment did not mean the AIADMK would perceive to immoderate the state said. “We person clarified our alliance. The NDA is headed by the AIADMK and the AIADMK volition signifier the government. I volition beryllium announced arsenic Chief Minister. In this case, wherever is Delhi coming here?” helium asked.

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