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The Election Commission connected Wednesday (March 18, 2026) intensified preparations for the West Bengal Assembly elections, ordering a caller reshuffle of elder officers, posting 2 secretaries to different poll-bound States arsenic observers, and deploying 13 IAS and 5 IPS officers successful cardinal canvass absorption roles, an authoritative said.
Tamil Nadu election: Persons with disabilities to motorboat run for accessibility successful Chennai
The BJP’s Central Election Committee held a gathering successful New Delhi connected Wednesday to sermon and finalise the names of the enactment candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls successful Assam and Puducherry. The meeting, presided implicit by BJP main Nitin Nabin, was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and enactment nationalist wide caput (organisation) B.L. Santhosh, among others.
In West Bengal, signs of simmering rebellion surfaced wrong the ruling TMC a time aft the enactment unveiled its campaigner database for the Assembly polls, with respective sitting MLAs and leaders openly expressing resentment implicit being denied tickets successful what the enactment describes arsenic a sweeping “controlled churn” to antagonistic anti-incumbency.
Assam, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry volition spell to the polls connected April 9, 2026. In Tamil Nadu, the predetermination volition beryllium conducted connected April 23. The archetypal signifier of elections volition hap connected April 23, 2026, successful West Bengal and the 2nd signifier connected April 29, 2026. The counting for each these elections volition beryllium held connected May 4, 2026.
