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Kerala Assembly polls: IUML ‘backs’ V.D. Satheesan as Congress-led UDF’s CM pick

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Kerala Assembly polls: IUML ‘backs’ V.D. Satheesan as Congress-led UDF’s CM pick

Preparations in progress at the Assembly election counting centre at Mar Athanasius College, Kothamangalam, on May 3. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Around 15 locations in the district will be under heightened surveillance on Monday (May 4), with the police planning intense security arrangements in view of the declaration of the Assembly election results. The political hotspots in the district include areas such as Chengamanad, Pezhakkappilly, Binanipuram, Edathala, and Kunnathunad.All the sensitive locations fall within the Ernakulam rural police limits. The sensitive locations were identified based on issues and scuffles reported during the election campaign. Published - May 03, 2026 08:57 pm IST

Assembly elections 2026 LIVE: Repolling set to be carried out across 15 booths in West Bengal today

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Assembly elections 2026 LIVE: Repolling set to be carried out across 15 booths in West Bengal today

The Government College of Engineering at Chithode where votes polled in six Assembly constituencies are to be counted on May 4 in Erode in Tamil Nadu. | Photo Credit: Govarthan M Election Comission of India (ECI) has ordered that fresh voting will be held across all 285 polling stations in Falta assembly constituency of West Bengal on May 21 even as repolling was held in 15 booths in Paschim Magrahat and Diamond Harbour assembly constituencies on Saturday (May 2, 2026).Explained: Tamil Nadu elections and the long gap between polling and countingAccording to Election...

Assembly Elections Exit Poll 2026 Date and Time: How to check details for Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala?

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Assembly Elections Exit Poll 2026 Date and Time: How to check details for Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala?

Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Voting Live Updates: The repolls were ordered in 11 polling stations of the Magrahat Paschim assembly constituency and four in Diamond Harbour.

Bengal polls: Calcutta HC cautions EC on preventive detentions

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Bengal polls: Calcutta HC cautions EC on preventive detentions

4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 1, 2026 10:28 AM IST Outside the EVM strong room at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra in Jorasanko Assembly constituency in West Bengal on Thursday. (Express photo by Partha Paul)Calcutta High Court news: The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) challenging the deployment of central government and PSU employees as counting supervisors and assistants in the West Bengal assembly elections, holding that the decision falls within the domain of the Election Commission and does not suffer from any illegality. Justice...

Women BJP MLAs protest against Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Assembly premises

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Women BJP MLAs protest against Opposition in Uttar Pradesh Assembly premises

Following a nearly 10-hour long discussion, the Chhattisgarh Assembly on Thursday (April 30, 2026) passed a resolution seeking the immediate implementation of one-third reservation for women. Photo: X@vishnudsai Following a nearly 10-hour long discussion, the Chhattisgarh Assembly on Thursday (April 30, 2026) passed a resolution seeking the immediate implementation of one-third reservation for women in the Parliament and all Legislative Assemblies after completion of the delimitation process.Earlier this month, the Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026, which sought to redistribute Lok Sabha seats on the basis of the 2011 Census to expedite...

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Assembly election 2026 updates: TMC stages sit-in outside EVM strongroom in Kolkata alleging irregularities

Home News India TMC sources said that CM Mamata Banerjee was also heading to the centre to take stock of the situation in the Khudiram Anushilan Kendra Updated - April 30, 2026 09:25 pm IST Screengrab from a video posted by @AITCofficial on April 30, 2026, allegedly showing CCTV footage of BJP workers opening ballot boxes in an EVM storeroom. | Photo Credit: X/@AITCofficial Leaders across the polling States react to the exit polls on Thursday (April 30, 2026). In West Bengal, CM Mamata Banerjee alleged that exit poll projections were aired at the “instruction of the BJP” to demoralise...

IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma was not on EC’s initial observer list for West Bengal

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IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma was not on EC’s initial observer list for West Bengal

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav during a press conference at the party office, in Lucknow on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday (April 29, 2026) claimed that a “parallel administrative structure” led by Central forces has been created in West Bengal to influence the election, and urged voters to oppose the “misuse of officials”.Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Mr. Yadav said, “In Bengal, Didi (Mamata Banerjee) is going to win with historic votes. The people of Bengal are voting in large numbers in her favour....

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