High stakes battle
High stakes battle
The national as well as regional parties have high stakes in the elections to the assemblies of four states -Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union Territory
| 27 Feb 2021 4:30 AM GMT
The national as well as regional parties have high stakes in the elections to the assemblies of four states -Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry will be going for single phase voting on April 6 while there will be three-phase polling in Assam and eight-phase polling in West Bengal. With the Model Code of Conduct coming into force with immediate effect, the ruling parties in each of the poll-bound states as well as the Central government will not be able to make any new announcement till the election process for all the five assemblies are over. This means some of the burning issues in Assam like expansion of the list of Scheduled Tribes, announcement of the rul