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New Delhi, May 02: With assembly elections over in Assam, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry, all eyes are now on counting day. The counting of postal ballots is set to begin at 8 am on Sunday after which the votes polled in the Electronic Voting Machines are expected to be taken up half an hour later. Initial trends may get cleared by 10-11 am.
It may take a few extra hours to complete the counting because of the Covid-19 rules.
This time, the Election Commission has made negative RT-PCR test certificate or certificate of both doses of vaccine mandatory for people who will be admitted inside counting centres.
Tamil Nadu
There were nearly 4,000 candidates in the fray including Chief Minister K Palaniswami, Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam, DMK president M K Stalin, his son and party youth wing secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin, AIADMK”s rival and Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam chief TTV Dhinakaran, MNM”s Haasan and BJP state unit chief L…