Assembly Elections Live Updates: Manipur Election Dates Revised - 1st Phase On Feb 28, 2nd On March 5

Assembly Polls Live Updates: Earlier, voting was scheduled on February 27 and March 3.

The voting dates for the two-phase Manipur assembly elections have been changed, the Election Commission said Thursday.

Voting for the first phase is on February 28, and the second phase is on March 5; earlier, voting was scheduled on February 27 and March 3.

Addressing an election rally in Mapusa ahead of the February 14 assembly polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said if Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wanted, Goa could have been liberated "within hours" in 1947 when India attained Independence, but it took 15 years for the state to be freed from Portuguese rule.