New Delhi, March 15 -- The stage is set for the Election Commission of India to announce the dates for assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry at 4 PM today, 15 March.

The poll panel, comprising Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, willaddress a press conference in this regard at Vigyan Bhawan, the election commission said.

The terms of the Assemblies in all these states/Union Territory ends between May and June. The West Bengal Assembly's term gets over on 7 May, Tamil Nadu's on 10 May, Assam's on 20 May, Kerala's on 23 May, and Puducherry's on 15 June.

As the end dates of assemblies near, speculation was rife about the poll date ...