Exit polls have forecast a tight contest between the incumbent Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress and the BJP in the crucial West Bengal assembly polls and put the ruling saffron combine ahead in Assam while projecting that the Left alliance will retain Kerala, a feat unseen in four decades.
For the Congress, the exit polls predicted that it may fall short in Assam and Kerala and lose in Puducherry to the opposition alliance of AINRC-BJP-AIADMK.
The only good news for the Congress was from Tamil Nadu, where the exit polls predicted that the DMK-led opposition alliance, of which it is a part, will trounce the AIADMK-BJP coalition.
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Exit poll numbers is out for Assam, where the ruling BJP is up against a grand alliance of eight parties including Congress and Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF.
Assam Exit Polls 2021: BJP likely to retain power, big setback for Congress
The voter turnout in the first phase was nearly 77 percent, in the second phase of polling it was 74.76 per cent, while a voter turnout of 82. 29 per cent was recorded in the third and final phase
The state of Assam went to polls in three phases on March 27, April 1 and April 6 for its total 126 constituencies, and the counting of votes will be held on May 2. In the three-phased Assam Assembly Election, the state had recorded a total turnout was nearly 82. 04 per cent.
According to the data provided by the Election Commission, the voter turnout in the first phase was nearly 77 percent, in the second phase of polling it was 74.76 per cent, while a voter turnout of 82. 29 per cent was recorded in the third and final phase where the fate of 337 candidates, including state minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Hemanta Biswa Sarma in the Jalukbari constituency, was to be decided.
Sarbananda Sonowal has been visiting a number of districts, said the opposition. (File)
Guwahati, Assam:
The Congress-led alliance in Assam has complained to the Election Commission about the alleged violation of the model code of conduct by Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal and Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in the guise of COVID-19 management .
Sources in the Election Commission told NDTV that the complaint will be probed to check if there is a violation or not.,
In a letter, the 10-party alliance has asked the election body to bar the leaders from travelling to different districts to hold meetings.Pointing out the model code of conduct is still in effect in Assam with the results of the three-phased state elections yet to be declared, the alliance says that during the political transition period, where the status of the government is a care taker government, no minister should visit any district.