Assembly Elections 2026 LIVE updates: BJP using AIADMK as a ‘mask’ in attempt to enter Tamil Nadu, Stalin says

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (April 14, 2026) alleged that “logical discrepancy” underneath the SIR train is no longer an officially recognised period of time underneath the Election Fee framework and became once selectively utilized in West Bengal, unlike Bihar, to aid the BJP.

Addressing a public rally at Pingla in Paschim Medinipur district, she said she has no longer seen a “soiled celebration” admire the BJP.

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Passe national president of the BJP and Union Minister for Well being and Household Welfare J.P. Nadda asserted on Tuesday (April 14, 2026) that the BJP will make particular at any cost that the Karthigai Deepam may perhaps be lit at the stone pillar, identified because the deepathoon, atop the Thiruparankundram Hill in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.

He became once in Tiruvannamalai to canvass votes for C. Elumalai, the BJP candidate for Tiruvannamalai Assembly constituency. “The BJP will exact the deepathoon to permit devotees to light the Karthigai Deepam atop the hillock. We are going to make particular that it happens,” he said.

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Supreme week, actor and Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam founder C. Joseph Vijay upset his supporters when he did no longer take care of them at an Assembly election assembly in Karaikudi on April 10, 2026, as his arrival became once delayed “attributable to immense crowds en route” from Madurai.

Mr. Vijay’s “nonetheless” campaign revived recollections of a trend that took assign of residing over a quarter of a century within the past in Tamil Nadu at the height of the 1999 parliamentary elections.

The snap polls had been being held within the country after AIADMK chief Jayalalitha (as her title became once spelled then) pulled down the 13-month venerable Atal Bihari Vajpayee authorities, elected in 1998. The collapse of the BJP-led alliance authorities became once preceded by a tea celebration hosted by Janata Occasion chief Subramanian Swamy (now in BJP), in Current Delhi in which Jayalalitha and Congress chief Sonia Gandhi participated. It willing the flooring for the revival of the AIADMK-Congress alliance in Tamil Nadu.

A total of two,926 candidates are within the fray in 294 seats within the upcoming West Bengal Assembly election.

The Assembly polls would be held in two phases in West Bengal on April 23 and April 29.

Whereas 1,487 candidates will contest in 152 seats for Allotment 1, in Allotment 2, a total of 1,448 contestants will wrestle in 142 constituencies.

The final note date for submitting nominations for the polls in West Bengal became once April 9, and the final note date for withdrawal of nominations became once April 13.

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Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam founder and actor C. Joseph Vijay, on Tuesday (April 14, 2026), announced that the celebration’s total election manifesto for the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections may perhaps be released on Thursday.

Campaigning at Perumanallur in Tiruppur district and unveiling excerpts from the TVK’s manifesto, he said: “I occupy come to repay a debt of gratitude. I is no longer going to deceive you by making false promises. Please focus on me a household member and give me one likelihood.”

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to retain several public meetings within the West Bengal on Wednesday (April 15, 2026). He’s going to again a rally at Lebong flooring (spherical midday) in Darjeeling metropolis, adopted by a assembly at Rajganj of Jalpaiguri district.

Later within the afternoon, Amit Shah will join a rally at the Falakata Mill street flooring in Alipurduar. He is scheduled to join a public assembly at the Kalibari RMC flooring in Tufanganj in Coochbehar. 

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (April 14, 2026) addressed three public meetings in ballot-sure West Bengal, accusing the Trinamool Congress of paving the contrivance in which for the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) within the Recount.

“The BJP spreads violence. Their Prime Minister is ‘compromised’. I won’t even focus on them. On the quite a spread of hand, the Trinamool has willing the flooring for the BJP in West Bengal. As a result of, if the Trinamool had carried out its work, supplied to your income, and didn’t spread violence, the BJP wouldn’t occupy been seen here,” Mr. Gandhi said.

He addressed election meetings at Uttar Dinajpur, Malda and Murshidabad districts and sought toughen for his celebration candidates. The Congress chief became once canvassing for his celebration’s candidates after 5 years since the final note Assembly polls in 2021.

Amid excessive-octave election campaigning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is assign of residing to participate in a roadshow in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday (April 15). The tournament is liable to be attended by AIADMK Extraordinary Secretary Edappadi Satisfactory. Palaniswami, BJP Recount president Nainar Nagenthran and different celebration leaders including Satisfactory. Annamalai.

The Prime Minister has visited Kanniyakumari district several events within the past and delivered election campaign speeches. However, for the first time, he would behavior a roadshow in an initiating car, allowing americans to notion him from conclude quarters, senior BJP chief Pon Radhakrishnan said.

Mr. Radhakrishnan said the tournament would initiating at 3 p.m. and quilt a distance of spherical a km. It can most likely well initiating at Kamaraj statue at Veppamoodu junction, pass through clock tower, Jeeva statue, Anna statue and put at M.G.R. statue in Vadasery.

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DMK president and Chief Minister M. Satisfactory. Stalin on Tuesday (April 14, 2026) cautioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi “no longer to play with fire” – the proposed delimitation – and cautioned Union Minister Piyush Goyal to “mind his tongue” while talking about Tamil Nadu and its americans.

Campaigning for DMK-led Secular Innovative Alliance (SPA) candidates in Vellore and Tirupattur districts for the Assembly elections, Mr. Stalin said Mr. Goyal had been appointed handiest because the BJP’s in-payment for Tamil Nadu and is no longer going to focus on its americans in a disrespectful formula.