West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 Full Schedule Announced: The much-awaited poll schedule of the West Bengal Assembly Elections has been announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The Election Commission held a press conference in this regard Friday afternoon to announce the dates.
WB Assembly Polls will be held for all 294 seats. The voting will take place in 1,01,916 polling stations all over West Bengal. After the announcement Model Code of Conduct was imposed with immediate effect with this announcement.
POLL SCHEDULE
Polling Dates
1st phase: March 27 for 30 seats
2nd phase: April 1 for 30 seats
3rd phase: April 6 for 31 seats
4th phase: April 10 for 44 seats
5th phase: April 17 for 45 seats
6th phase: April 22 for 43 seats
7th phase: April 26 for 36 seats
8th phase: April 29 for 35 seats
Counting of Votes and Result: May 2nd, 2021
Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP have been bitterly engaged in a war of words. BJP is riding high on its success in the 2019 Lok Sabha election in the state and is determined to dislodge the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.
The magic figure to be the ruling party in the West Bengal Assembly is 148.
TMC had won 211 seats in the 2016 Assembly Elections, while in 2019 BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal.
Bengal will witness the most highly volatile battle with two-time Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee facing a tough challenge from the BJP amid an exodus from her Trinamool Congress to the saffron party and corruption investigations against her prominent party leaders.
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