Campaigning Underway in Four Poll-Bound States and Puducherry

In Kerala, election campaigning for upcoming assembly polls has intensified, as nomination filing ends on Friday. News reports that Candidates of the three major political fronts began to visit the voters in their constituencies.

LDF had finished their regional election conventions and started booth-wise meetings. UDF and NDA are continuing their election convention meetings in various constituencies. Congress announced their candidates for 6 more seats yesterday and is yet to declare their candidate for Dharmadom, where the Chief Minister is contesting. BJP decided to field their senior leader Shobha Surendran in Kazhakkoottam.  

As the election picture has become clear, national leaders, as well as state leaders, have begun their campaigning tours.

Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will begin his statewide campaign from Wayanad today. Opposition leader Ramesh Chennithala and BJP president K Surendran will inaugurate public meetings in various constituencies. AICC secretary Ivan D'Souza will visit Idukki today, as more National leaders are also expected to visit the state by next week.

In the poll-bound Assam, the election campaign is going on for the First Phase of State Assembly Elections. The state will be witnessing



three-phase elections this time. During the First Phase, 47 Assembly Constituencies will go to polls on the 27th of March while the Second Phase of polling will be conducted on the 1st of April in 39 Assembly Constituencies.

The Third Phase polling will be held in 40 Assembly Constituencies on the 6th of April. The total strength of the house is 126 out of which eight seats are reserved for the Scheduled Castes and 16 seats reserved for the Scheduled Tribes. Presently, there are nine vacancies in the house.

       

In the two-phase elections held in 2016, Bharatiya Janata Party emerged as the single largest party capturing 60 seats while the ruling Indian National Congress could manage to get only 26 seats. Asom Gana Parishad bagged 14 seats, All India United Democratic Front won 13, and Bodoland Peoples' Front got 12 seats while the remaining one went to an independent candidate.

In the 2011 Assembly Elections, Indian National Congress bagged 78 seats while the All India United Democratic Front won 18, and Bodoland Peoples' Front took 12 seats.

Besides, Asom Gana Parishad won 10 and Bharatiya Janata Party got five seats while the independent candidates claimed two and the remaining one went to the All India Trinamool Congress.