<p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>West Bengal Assembly Election 2021 Full Schedule Announced:</strong> The much-awaited poll schedule of the West Bengal Assembly Elections has been announced by the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Friday. The Election Commission held a press conference in this regard Friday afternoon to announce the dates. WB Assembly Polls will be held for all 294 seats.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The voting will take place in 1,01,916 polling stations all over West Bengal. After the announcement Model Code of Conduct was imposed with immediate effect with this announcement.</p> <h3 style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>POLL SCHEDULE</strong></span></h3> <p><strong>Polling Dates</strong></p> <p><strong>1st phase: </strong>March 27 for 30 seats</p> <p><strong>2nd phase: </strong>April 1 for 30 seats</p> <p><strong>3rd phase: </strong>April 6 for 31 seats</p> <p><strong>4th phase:</strong> April 10 for 44 seats</p> <p><strong>5th phase:</strong> April 17 for 45 seats&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>6th phase: </strong>April 22 for 43 seats</p> <p><strong>7th phase:</strong> April 26 for 36 seats</p> <p><strong>8th phase:</strong>&nbsp; April 29 for&nbsp; 35 seats</p> <p><strong>Counting of Votes and Result:</strong> May 2nd, 2021</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly Polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the BJP have been bitterly engaged in a war of words. BJP is riding high on its success in the 2019 Lok Sabha election in the state and is determined to dislodge the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">The magic figure to be the ruling party in the West Bengal Assembly is 148.&nbsp;</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">TMC had won 211 seats in the 2016 Assembly Elections, while in 2019 BJP won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Bengal will witness the most highly volatile battle with two-time Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee facing a tough challenge from the BJP amid an exodus from her Trinamool Congress to the saffron party and corruption investigations against her prominent party leaders.</p>

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