New Delhi: The campaigning for the April 6 assembly poll in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry came to a end on Sunday evening.
In Bengal, there will be voting for 31 assembly seats for the third phase. In Assam, polling will be held for 40 seats in the third and final phase.
Elections will also be held on April 6 for 232 seats in Tamil Nadu, 140 seats in Kerala and 30 seats in Puducherry. These three states will have voting in a single phase, while in Bengal there will be voting in eight phases and in Assam in the third and last phase.
In the third phase of Bengal assembly elections, a total of 205 candidates are in the fray for 31 seats in three districts of Howrah, Hooghly and South 24 Parganas. Voting will be held on April 6. Notification for this phase was issued on 12 March last. The third phase consists of seven seats in Howrah, eight in Hooghly and 16 in South 24 Parganas district. In the last assembly election in Bengal, the Trinamool Congress won 30 of these 31 seats, the Congress won only one seat, although the contest is tough this time.
Kerala has 27 lakh voters. The ruling Left Democratic Front, the United Democratic Front, of which Congress is a part, and the BJP are predominantly in the electoral fray. There is a tough competition between these three in 140 assembly seats here. There are 324 candidates in the fray for Puducherry’s 30 assembly constituencies.
