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Will Mamata Banerjee Retain Bengal? State Election Results On Sunday


The Election Fee has banned victory roadshows and automobile rallies.

New Delhi:

Counting of votes shall be held on Sunday within the high-stakes Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry meeting elections, overshadowed by the raging COVID pandemic, because the BJP seeks to consolidate its maintain over extra states and the Congress together with its allies makes an attempt to regain misplaced turf.

There shall be 2,364 counting halls as in comparison with 1,002 halls in 2016 in 822 assemble constituencies, a greater than 200 p.c improve, in view of the COVID pointers, in line with the Election Fee which had drawn flak from the courts over the conduct of polls throughout the pandemic.

Not less than 15 rounds of sanitisation shall be carried out at every polling centre, apart from social distancing and different precautions, together with a ban on gatherings, shall be strictly adopted, officers mentioned.

They mentioned counting of votes will start at 8 AM and proceed late into the evening. As many as 1,100 counting observers will watch the method and candidates and brokers must produce a damaging COVID check report or double dose of vaccination certificates to get an entry.

Exit polls have forecast a decent contest between the incumbent Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress and the BJP within the essential West Bengal meeting polls and put the ruling saffron mix forward in Assam whereas projecting that the Left alliance will retain Kerala, a feat unseen in 4 a long time.

For the Congress, the exit polls predicted that it might fall brief in Assam and Kerala and lose in Puducherry to the opposition alliance of AINRC-BJP-AIADMK.

The one excellent news for the Congress was from Tamil Nadu, the place the exit polls predicted that the DMK-led opposition alliance, of which it’s a half, will trounce the AIADMK-BJP coalition.

The ballot leads to the 4 states and the UT are additionally more likely to replicate how the dealing with of the COVID pandemic has performed on the voters” thoughts.

Polling was held in eight phases in West Bengal between March 27 and April 29, in Assam in three phases on March 27, April 1 and 6, whereas votes had been solid in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry in a single part on April 6, when the COVID surge had begun in lots of the states.

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal are among the many 11 states that account for 78.22 per cent of the overall lively circumstances, in line with the Well being ministry.

A 3-tier safety association is in place in West Bengal’s 108 counting centres and no less than 292 observers have been appointed and 256 firms of central forces deployed throughout 23 districts of the state that voted in a gruelling election marred by violence and cruel private assaults.

The outcome will determine whether or not Mamata Banerjee, who has been in energy for 10 years and is arguably preventing the hardest ballot of her political profession, has been in a position to thwart the problem by the battle-hardened election military of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Dwelling Minister Amit Shah.

The BJP, which had simply three seats within the 294-member Meeting within the 2016 Meeting polls and went to win 18 out of 42 seats within the 2019 Lok Sabha election, had pulled out all stops within the state in a decided bid to oust Ms Banerjee, a vocal critic of Prime Minister Modi, and add one other state to its tally of 17.

The Left-Congress alliance is third principal contestant within the state.

In Tamil Nadu, each Dravidian events — AIADMK and DMK — went into the election with out their stalwarts, J Jayalalithaa and M Karunanidhi.

Chief Minister Ok Palaniswami and his deputy O Panneerselvam will cement their place as successors of Jayalalithaa if the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazagham (AIADMK) retains energy although it faces an uphill job particularly after the rout within the 2019 Lok Sabha election when the DMK-led alliance gained 38 out of 39 seats.

The AIADMK had scored successive wins in 2011 and in 2016, when Jayalalithaa bucked the anti-incumbency development — the primary by anybody in almost three a long time within the state.

After a slim defeat within the final meeting election the place a number of exit polls had predicted his occasion’s win, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) chief M Ok Stalin spearheaded a decided election marketing campaign this time and vigorously toured the state to tackle the ruling AIADMK.

AIADMK ally BJP, which had not gained any seat within the final polls, is contesting in 20 constituencies. One other AIADMK ally PMK is contesting from 23 constituencies.

The Congress, an ally of the DMK, is within the fray in 25 Meeting segments.

Actor-politician Kamal Haasan’s Makkal Needhi Maiam-led mix can also be within the fray.

There are 75 counting centres throughout the state and all preparations are in place to easily conduct the train, which might be monitored by observers, authorities mentioned.

In Kerala, the Left Democratic Entrance (LDF) is searching for to interrupt the state”s four-decade-old development of swinging between the communists and the Congress-led United Democratic Entrance.

As many as 957 candidates, together with Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, 11 of his Cupboard colleagues, Opposition chief Ramesh Chennithala, senior Congress chief Oommen Chandy, ”Metroman” E Sreedharan, former Union Minister Ok J Alphons and BJP State president Ok Surendran, amongst others, had been in fray within the election to the 140 seats.

The BJP,which had gained one seat in 2016, is assured of garnering extra seats this time

The ballot is important for Kerala Congress (M) chief Jose Ok Mani who just lately snapped decades-long ties with the UDF and joined palms with the Left entrance.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had camped within the state for a number of days and brought half in dozens of nook conferences and rallies, with the occasion hoping that the state will herald a flip in its electoral fortunes after a sequence of disappointments lately.

In Assam, the ruling BJP is going through a problem from ”Mahajoth” or ”Grand Alliance” comprising the Congress, AIUDF, Bodoland Peoples” Entrance (BPF), CPI(M), CPI, CPI(ML) Liberation, Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Anchalik Gana Morcha (AGM).

The BJP has an alliance with the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), the United Individuals”s Celebration Liberal (UPPL) and the Gana Suraksha Celebration (GSP),

The occasion had scripted historical past by successful the historically Congress-dominated state in 2016, after remaining on the fringes.

In Puducherry, the AINRC-led NDA and the Congress-led Secular Democratic alliance are in a contest. Whereas AINRC fielded candidates in 16 of the overall 30 constituencies the BJP is contesting 9 seats whereas the AIADMK is contesting 5 seats.

The Congress-led authorities within the Union Territory had collapsed simply earlier than the elections.

Counting can even be held in 4 Lok Sabha seats and 13 meeting seats throughout 13 states the place bypolls had been held.

The EC has banned victory roadshows and automobile rallies.

India’s day by day coronavirus tally crossed the grim milestone of 4 lakh on Saturday, whereas the deaths rose to 2,11,853 with 3,523 recent fatalities. The an infection tally rose to 1,91,64,969 with 4,01,993 new circumstances, whereas the lively circumstances crossed the 32-lakh mark.

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