INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
today announce the dates of the assembly elections in four states, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram
soon as the announcement is made by Election Commissioner OP Rawat during a press conference this afternoon.Sources in the election body
said that the entire election exercise will be completed by the first week of December
While polls in Chhattisgarh are likely to be held in two phases, elections in the other states might see polling in one phase, they said.All
major parties have already started making aggressive pitches ahead of the state elections.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is visiting BJP-ruled
Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be in Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP has been in power since 2013
traders, tribals and farmers.Congress president Rahul Gandhi too will be on a day-long tour of Madhya Pradesh today, during which he will
shocker to the Congress as she ruled out any alliance with the party in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
Last month, she had ditched the party in Chhattisgarh
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief, however, left the window open for a tie-up in the 2019 national election, for which the opposition
plans to join forces against the BJP.The elections in Telangana were originally scheduled to be held simultaneously with the Lok Sabha
But, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) had dissolved the state assembly on September 6, paving the
way for early elections in the southern state.Mizoram, which has 40 assembly seats, is the only state in the northeast which is under the
Congress rule.(With inputs from PTI)
