Assam Assembly Elections 2021

Men, women and the first-time voters in large numbers queued up in front of the polling stations well before the voting for 39 of the total of 126 assembly seats opened at 7 a.m. The polling would continue till 6 p.m. without any break in 13 districts.

According to EC sources, in West Bengal, about 80.03 per cent of the electorate voted in Bankura, 80.55 per cent in Jhargram, 80.16 per cent in West Midnapore and 82.42 per cent in East Midnapore district. In Assam, over 77 per cent of 8,109,815 voters cast their votes on Saturday in the first phase of the state's Assembly polls which were conducted in 47 of the 126 Assembly constituencies, election officials said.

Men and women in large numbers queued up in front of the polling stations well before the voting for 47 of the total of 126 assembly seats opened at 7 a.m. The polling would continue till 6 p.m. A total of 8,109,815 voters, including 4,032,481 females, are eligible to cast their votes across 11,537 polling stations mostly covering the eastern Assam's 14 districts.

Terming the Congress' '5 guarantees' as 'total lie', Chouhan also showed some video footage from Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where the guarantees have been proven as false promises. He told the media the Congress cannot execute these guarantees but they can fulfil some other guarantees -- 100 per cent corruption, destroy the peaceful environment of Assam and devastate the culture, tradition and heritage of Assam.

As per the Times Now C-Voter Opinion Poll Wave 4 data, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has improved her winning position in the high decibel West Bengal elections where her party is poised to win 160 seats in the 294-member state Assembly.