Assembly Election 2026: Restrictions imposed for Ram Navami celebrations, over 3,000 personnel deployed

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Ram Navami processions are likely to be held across the state between March 26 and March 29, with the highest number of rallies expected on Thursday.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: According to the reports, a high-level meeting was held at state secretariat Nabanna to review the security arrangements. It was attended by the chief secretary, home secretary, director general of police, ADG (law and order), and district magistrates and superintendents of police of all districts.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: "Around 3,000 police personnel will be deployed across the state, and no procession with more than 500 participants will be allowed," the officer said on Wednesday.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Carrying of weapons has been prohibited and the number of participants in a procession capped at 500, says Bengal police official.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Full restrictions have been imposed in West Bengal for Ram Navami celebrations on Thursday and security has been tightened as around 3,000 police personnel have been deployed across the state

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Palaniswami, popularly known as EPS, served as the seventh chief minister of Tamil Nadu from 2017 to 2021. The 71-year-old leader of the Opposition in the assembly has represented the Edappadi constituency since 2011, and previously from 1989 to 1996.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami will contest the Tamil Nadu assembly election 2026 from the Edappadi constituency.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: This is people’s victory’: RG Kar victim’s mother joins Bengal poll race, targets govt on rights, safety

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Polling for all 234 Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu will be held on April 23. Other NDA allies are GK Vasan-led Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) and Indhiya Jananayaga Katchi.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: It is important to note that the BJP's announcement came two days after the AIADMK-led NDA finalised its seat-sharing pact for the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly polls. Under the arrangement, AIADMK will contest 178 seats, the BJP 27, the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) faction led by Anbumani Ramadoss 18, and the Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam, headed by TTV Dhinakaran, 11 seats.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: In Tamil Nadu, other candidates named in the BJP list include D Jayakumar (Royapuram), CV Shanmugam (Mailam), Sellur K Raju (Madurai West), KP Anbazhagan (Palacode), R Kamaraj (Nannilam), OS Manian (Vedaranyam), C Vijayabaskar (Viralimalai), Kadambur C Raju (Kovilpatti), RB Udhayakumar (Thirumangalam), KT Rajendra Balaji (Sivakasi), S Benjamin (Maduravoyal), SS Krishnamurthy (Kalasapakkam), VV Rajan Chellappa (Thiruparankundram), KC Karuppannan (Bhavani), KC Veeramani (Jolarpet), MR Vijayabaskar (Karur) and Thamarai Rajendran (Ariyalur).

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: In Tamil Nadu, the BJP has retained several senior leaders in its initial list, including KP Munusamy, Dindigul C Sreenivasan and Natham R Viswanathan. It also fielded key western region leaders such as SP Velumani and P Thangamani from Thondamuthur and Kumarapalayam, respectively.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Tamil Nadu's main opposition party, AIADMK, released its first list of 23 candidates for the April 23 Assembly polls, renominating party chief Edappadi K Palaniswami from his home constituency of Edappadi.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: In West Bengal, the BJP released its first list of 144 candidates on March 16. Two of them were later changed on March 19, when the party finalised its second list of 111 candidates, fielding several former heavyweight TMC leaders and actors who joined the party before the 2021 polls, and retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Rajesh Kumar.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Trinamool Congress state general secretary Kunal Ghosh questioned Debnath’s decision to contest on a BJP ticket. "I wonder why you ran to the BJP to seek safety for women. Have you forgotten the rape and murder of women in BJP-ruled states? Have you forgotten the Unnao and Hathras incidents?" Ghosh asked.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: The BJP has named former commando Dipanjan Chakraborty, who had served in the National Security Guard (NSG), as the party candidate from Hooghly district’s Uttarpara seat.

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: Ratna Debnath’s name figured in the third list of 19 candidates released by the BJP on Wednesday for the two-phase West Bengal assembly polls in April. With the third list, the BJP has named 274 candidates

Assembly Election 2026 LIVE: BJP fielded the mother of a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital in August 2024 from the Panihati seat in North 24 Parganas district.

Assembly Election 2026 Live: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday released the third list of 19 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Election 2026.