Poll Dates  

The BJP is concentrating on local issues of the national capital and addressing them as the election commission is all set to announce the poll dates anytime 

The Election Commission of India on September 21 announced that Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly would go to polls on October 21. The verdict will be announced on October 24. The poll dates for Jharkhand will be announced later. Countdown for elections begins.

In a recent development, the Election Commission of India is expected to announce the dates of Maharashtra and Haryana Assembly elections on September 21

Opposition parties and Muslim clerics have raised their objections over the polling dates falling in the month of Ramzaan, which is expected to start from May 5.
 

The Bengal urban development minister and Kolkata mayor expressed his unhappiness about poll dates colliding with Ramzan.

Chief election commissioner Sunil Arora said that the Election Commission of India has taken the exam dates and festival dates into consideration before releasing the Lok Sabha Poll dates.

Chief election commissioner OP Rawat said that the model code of conduct will be effective from Saturday in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Mizoram as well as Telangana

All major parties have already started making aggressive pitches ahead of the state elections. BJP president Amit Shah and Congress president Rahul Gandhi are in Madhya Pradesh for election campaign
 

The I-T raids come within days of AIADMK making it clear that while it does not oppose simultaneous elections, it does not favour Tamil Nadu going into elections in April 2019