A look at the latest developments on Assembly elections from the five states:

  1. Former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Sunday announced the first list of his party Punjab Lok Congress candidates from 22 constituencies for the state Assembly elections, reported PTI. Former captain of Indian hockey team Ajit Pal Singh has been fielded from the Nakodar seat. Singh will contest the Patiala Urban seat. The Punjab Lok Congress, which is in an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party, has been allotted 37 to contest out of the 117 seats in the state.
  2. BJP General Secretary Tarun Chugh said that the party will nominate Sikh candidates on more than half of the total seats it will contest in the Punjab Assembly polls, reported PTI. From the alliance, he said that it is expected that most of its candidates will be from the Sikh community, especially farmers and members of the Other Backward Class.
  3. The Apna Dal (Sonelal), an ally of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has fielded a Muslim candidate for the first time since 2014 for state Assembly polls, reported ANI. The candidate, Haider Ali Khan, will contest the Suar seat in western Uttar Pradesh’s Rampur district.
  4. The candidates of the Congress in Goa on Sunday took a pledge to remain loyal to the electorate and the party and will not defect. Senior leaders including P Chidambaram, Dinesh Gundu Rao, Girish Chodankar among others accompanied the 34 candidates to the places of worship for the pledge, reported NDTV.
  5. Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Sunday announced an alliance of 35 smaller political parties for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections, reported Hindustan Times. The alliance will be called the Samajik Parivartan Morcha.