Morning Digest: Voting for all 234 Tamil Nadu seats, Phase 1 in West Bengal today; U.S. Navy Secretary John Phelan fired by Pentagon, and more

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Election officials and instrumentality  astatine  a polling presumption    connected  the eve of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Election successful  Chennai connected  April 22, 2026

Election officials and instrumentality astatine a polling presumption connected the eve of the Tamil Nadu Assembly Election successful Chennai connected April 22, 2026 | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam

People volition enactment up connected Thursday (April 23, 2026) to ballot crossed 234 Assembly constituencies successful Tamil Nadu and 152 successful the archetypal signifier of polling successful West Bengal. For Tamil Nadu’s implicit 5.73 crore electors, 75,064 polling stations person been acceptable up successful 33,133 locations. In West Bengal, the Election Commission has deployed much than 2,400 companies of cardinal equipped constabulary unit to guarantee escaped and just polls. Around 3.60 crore voters are eligible to formed their votes successful this signifier and polling volition beryllium held crossed 44,378 stations.

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Published - April 23, 2026 06:57 americium IST

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