Assembly Elections LIVE updates: Piyush Goyal to finalise seat-sharing talks for T.N. NDA today

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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) president Vijay on Sunday (March 22, 2026) announced candidates for all 30 Assembly segments in the Union Territory of Puducherry as the party is going solo to face the upcoming elections. The Congress and DMK on Sunday (March 22, 2026) broadly agreed to share 15 seats each in the 30-member Puducherry Assembly, which goes to the polls on April 9.

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (March 21, 2026) kickstarted her campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency with a workers’ meeting. The meeting was held at Ahindra Mancha, with eight councillors of the Trinamool, including Minister Firhad Hakim, who is also a councillor from the area, also present.

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Kerala Chief Minister and CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan, in an interview with The Hindu, predicts the BJP will not win a seat again in the upcoming Assembly polls.

The Congress on Sunday (March 22, 2026) announced its fifth and final list of seven candidates for the Assam Assembly elections. With this, the party has declared candidates for 101 of the 126 seats in the State Assembly.

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Assam, Kerala and the Union Territory of Puducherry will go to polls on April 9, 2026. In Tamil Nadu, the election will be conducted on April 23. The first phase of elections will happen on April 23, 2026 in West Bengal and the second phase on April 29, 2026. The counting for all these elections will be held on May 4, 2026.

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