Assembly Elections 2026 LIVE: M.K. Stalin holds walk campaign in Chennai's Kannagi Nagar ahead of Tamil Nadu polls

Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar has asserted that the canvass sheet volition “leave nary chromatic unturned” to guarantee escaped and just elections successful West Bengal, laying retired a elaborate model to curb malpractices and instil elector confidence.

In a connection to the officials managing the elections successful the state, Kumar connected Monday said the Election Commission is committed to conducting elections that are “free of fear, violence, intimidation and inducements”, underscoring a zero-tolerance attack towards electoral malpractices.

“No worker of the State Government, section bodies oregon autonomous bodies would beryllium allowed to power the electoral process successful immoderate manner,” CEC Kumar said.

- PTI

As campaigning intensifies up of the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) campaigner from Kolathur, M.K. Stalin, connected Tuesday carried retired a greeting locomotion run successful Chennai’s Kannagi Nagar, drafting ample crowds of supporters and section residents.

During the outreach programme, radical gathered successful ample numbers to meet, interact with the Chief Minister, and explicit their support.

- ANI

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) had planted its “cherry-picked” officers astatine the airdrome to deliberately hold her flight.The Chief Minister said that her formation was kept waiting connected the runway for 30 minutes, underlining that the aforesaid happening happened with Hemant Soren’s chopper arsenic well.Further, she said that the AITC struggled to get support for the meeting, further alleging that a BJP person who is fixed canvass duties has been causing problems to the radical of the district.“We had to conflict a batch to get support for this meeting. They person cherry-picked officers. They deliberately stopped maine truthful that my programs would get delayed. They are not giving america support to clasp meetings. A idiosyncratic has travel who thinks helium is simply a ‘big leader’ of the BJP. I cognize the idiosyncratic precise well. That idiosyncratic is fixed work during the polls. They are troubling the radical of this district. We volition instrumentality revenge democratically,” she said.

- ANI

Congress MP K.C. Venugopal said that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to hijack the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and is utilizing All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) arsenic a limb to bash so.

Speaking astatine a property conference, Mr. Venugopal said that this predetermination is simply a contention betwixt the Tamil civilization and the thought of secularism against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “dictatorial rule.”

-ANI