Assembly Elections 2021: PM Modi To Hold Roadshows In Kerala, Tamil Nadu And Puducherry Today Ahead Of April 6 Polls

<p>Days before elections on April 6, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Tuesday hold roadshows in poll-bound Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.&nbsp;</p> <p>As per the schedule shared by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Prime Minister will first address a rally in Palakkad in Kerala at around 11 AM on Tuesday, the constituency from where Metro man E Sreedharan has been fielded by the saffron party. The election for the 140-member Kerala Assembly will be held in a single phase on April 6 in over 40,771 polling stations.&nbsp;</p> <p>From Kerala, the PM will head to Tamil Nadu to hold rally at Dharapuram at around 1 PM. The assembly elections for 234 assembly seats in Tamil Nadu will be conducted in one phase on April 6 while the counting of votes and result announcement will be done on May 2.</p> <p>Later in the day, PM Modi, who is the star campaigner of the saffron party, will also address a rally in Puducherry, seeking support for the NDA government for the upcoming Assembly polls in the union territory. As per PTI reports, PM Modi will be speaking at the rally to be held at the AFT Thidal.&nbsp;</p> <p>&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;Prime Minister Shri &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;@narendramodi&lt;/a&gt; will address rallies in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on 30 March 2021.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Listen LIVE at&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&bull;&nbsp;&lt;a href="https://ift.tt/2QQTIab href="https://ift.tt/3dgyqtX href="https://ift.tt/2QQTIab href="https://ift.tt/3m1ODY9 9345014501 to hear him LIVE. &lt;a href="https://t.co/npucdz9OSg"&gt;pic.twitter.com/npucdz9OSg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; BJP (@BJP4India) &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/BJP4India/status/1376548941588656133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;March 29, 2021&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>The union territory of Puducherry will have its assembly election for 4 districts capturing 30 seats in a single phase on April 6. The union territory recently witnessed the collapse of its government as the Congress-DMK alliance lost its majority in the assembly after five MLAs resigned and one was disqualified by the party last year under the anti-defection law.&nbsp;</p> <p>It is to be noted that in the 2016 Assembly elections, Congress-DMK alliance made a comfortable victory as Congress won 15 and DMK two seats against the eight, four and one seat won by NR Congress, AIADMK and BJP respectively.</p>

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