Over 84 lakh voters in West Bengal will decide the political fate of 283 candidates on Thursday, when 35 assembly constituencies go to polls in the eighth and final phase, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19.
State Assembly elections to be held under strict COVID protocols - details inside
Door-to-door campaigning to be restricted to five persons including the candidate, polling officials to be vaccinated are among some of the guidelines File photo
Updated: Feb 26, 2021, 06:56 PM IST
Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora on Friday (February 26) announced the election dates for the four poll-bound states - West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala, and one Union Territory of Puducherry. He said that the Bihar Assembly polls held last year in November amid the COVID-19 pandemic was a watershed moment and proved to be a litmus test for the Election Commission of India (ECI).