End of one mega suspense : No PR in West Bengal .... but .... few questions remain ... Has TMC walked into a trap of its own ?? ::: Is polls in Bengal without completing the enrolment list would be unconstitutional ???

 With poll dates announcement, the Model Code Conduct comes into effect in all the poll-bound states.  

The term of the current 17th West Bengal Legislative Assembly, a 294-member House, is set to end on May 7, 2026. 

While the NDA bloc led by the BJP currently holds 86 out of the 126 seats in the Assam Assembly, the Congress, which is sitting with just 22 seats, will have an uphill task at hand to break the majority mark barrier of 64 seats.

Assam- Date of Polling-  9th April 

Tamil Nadu- Date of Polling- 23rd April 

West Bengal- Date of Polling- 23rd April (1st phase), 29th April (2nd phase) ; 

Keralam- Date of Polling- 9th April 

Puducherry- Date of Polling- 9th April; 

Date of Counting in four states and Puducherry - 4th May

The term of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly is going to end on May 10, before which the elections need to be concluded.  

The 140-member Legislative Assembly of Kerala will have Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan's Communist Party of India (Marxist), which is part of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) coalition, taking on the BJP and the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).

The term of the 15th Kerala Legislative Assembly is set to expire before May 23, 2026.  

CPI-M Leader & Senior Advocate, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya says, 

"Any attempt at a declaration without completing the enrolment list would be unconstitutional. 

The Election Commission would unnecessarily be inviting much more litigation. 

This is not the way a constitutional authority should function. It's their failure that they could not yet complete the upgradation of the issue of voter list and this failure will create disparity."