Assembly elections 2023: Significant state elections to be held in India today

Many people have been voting in Mizoram and Chhattisgarh as important state elections started in India.

They are one of five states having elections from November 7 to November 30. Vote counting has to be done by 3 December.

These surveys are considered as an early indication of the upcoming national elections in the following year.

Experts believe that they will provide information on how well the ruling and opposing parties will do in the upcoming 2024 general election.

This month, there are also elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan in the north of India, and Telangana in the south.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), only holds power in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress party is in charge of governing Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, and they are not the ruling party at the moment.

Voting started on Tuesday morning in Mizoram and 20 areas in Chhattisgarh.

At 1:00 PM IST (7:30 AM GMT), 44. 5% of voters in Chhattisgarh and 52. 73% of voters in Mizoram had cast their votes.

This is the first vote in the country’s north-eastern area after fighting between different ethnic groups broke out in Manipur state in May. More than 200 people have died in the fights.

Manipur, a state that borders Mizoram, is under the control of the BJP political party. Around 12,000 people who were forced to leave their homes because of the violence have relocated to Mizoram since May, according to information provided by the government.

Last month, Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga gave an interview to the BBC’s Jugal Purohit. He criticized the way the BJP is dealing with the crisis and stated that he would not stand on the same platform as PM Modi during his election campaigns.

Mr Zoramthanga’s political party, the Mizo Nationalist Front (MNF), is competing against the Zoram People’s Movement (ZPM) and the Congress Party in the election as it tries to regain power.

In Chhattisgarh, the ruling Congress party is competing against the BJP. The state is one of just four states where the Congress is in control.

The party has revealed many plans to help women, farmers, and tribal communities in the state during its election campaign.

Twelve out of the 20 seats that were voted on Tuesday were in the Bastar region. This area is controlled by Maoist rebels. Many extra soldiers were sent to make sure everything was safe.

Before the voting on Tuesday, a soldier who is a part of a military group got hurt in a blast. The blast was believed to be caused by the rebels according to the police. The incident took place in the Sukma region of the state.

According to news agency ANI, three security personnel were hurt in a gunfight with the rebels in a different area of the district.