Assembly election LIVE: Judicial officers' gherao fresh flashpoint in TMC-BJP war in West Bengal; EC hands over probe to NIA
The Hindu
Assembly elections 2026 updates April 3 2026 West Bengal Kerala Puducherry Assam Tamil Nadu polls
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to arrive in Puducherry on Friday (April 3, 2026) to hold a road show, aiming to galvanise support for the NDA candidates ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls.
In West Bengal, a day after judicial officers engage in Special Intensive Revision (SIR) duty were confined inside a block office in Malda’s Kaliachak for hours, the Election Commission handed over the probe into the matter to the NIA, following a Supreme Court directive.
As political confrontations intensified and the Supreme Court stepped in to censure the State administration over the Malda episode, agitation against the SIR of electoral rolls spread across districts on Thursday (April 2, 2026), just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election.
Assam, Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry will go to the polls on April 9, 2026. In Tamil Nadu, the election will be conducted on April 23. The first phase of elections will be held 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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