Schedule for the first set of major elections in India (Assam, WB, TN, Kerala, Puducherry) has been announced by the Election Commission in what the CEC called his last press conference. West Bengal Assembly polls would be a testing ground for the saffron camp to drive its polarization & sloganeering campaign and the Trinamool congress to weather the challenges of intra-party factionalism to head into its third-term.

As the electoral battle-ground heats up in West Bengal, Prashant Kishor shared TMC’s main slogan “Bengal wants its daughter” on Twitter, and reiterated a challenge that he laid down to the BJP in December, that if the opposition party crossed the double-digit mark he would “quit this space”.

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Mr. Kishor’s company, I-PAC is assisting Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her bid to stop the BJP which is trying to make inroads in the state.

“One of the key battles FOR DEMOCRACY in India will be fought in West Bengal, and the people of Bengal are ready with their MESSAGE and determined to show the RIGHT CARD – #BanglaNijerMeyekeiChay (Bengal Only Wants its Own Daughter) PS: On 2nd May, hold me to my last tweet,” he wrote.

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On December 21 Mr. Kishor had tweeted: “For all the hype AMPLIFIED by a section of supportive media, in reality BJP will struggle to CROSS DOUBLE DIGITS in #WestBengal PS: Please save this tweet and if BJP does any better I must quit this space!”

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West Bengal elections will be held in eight phases from March 27 to April 29, the Election Commission announced on Friday, making it the longest ever polls in the state. The results will be declared on May 2. The eight days of voting are March 27, April 1, April 6, April 10, April 17, April 22, April 26, and April 29. Last time, in 2016, the state’s 6.5 crore voters voted over seven days between April and May.