Election Commission on Tuesday banned all victory processions on the day of or after counting of votes New Delhi: Counting of votes for the Assam, Bengal, Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu Assembly polls - held between March 27 and April 29 - starts 8 am, amid a devastating second Covid wave and concerns the process could lead to a even bigger spike. Here are your ten points on this big story: The battle for Bengal is likely to make the biggest headlines, with the Trinamool and the BJP having waged a bitter, and at times crass, campaign. The biggest fight will be for Nandigram, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the BJP's Suvendhu Adhikari, her ex-protege and whose December defection triggered a flood of exits, will face-off against each other.