 Hello and welcome to the Daily Roundup. I am Sumedha. Take a look at our top stories of the day. Campaigning in Bengal is ending tonight at 10pm and the opposition is questioning the Election Commission. In Kashmir, one Javan and three militants were killed in an encounter in the Pulwama region. Sugarcane farmers of Kushinagar have been feeling betrayed by the Prime Minister. Take a look at our ground report. Iran's Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif met Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi. In the Sudan crisis, the military and the opposition are agreeing on a three-year transition. The campaign in West Bengal is ending tonight at 10pm and the opposition parties are questioning the Election Commission. The Election Commission has curtailed the campaign in West Bengal citing Article 324 of the Constitution which gives it the powers of superintendents, direction and control of election. Now the campaigning for the nine seats in Bengal will end on Thursday night, which is tonight, a day early instead of 5pm on Friday. So far this article has been used for the cancellation, postponement of the election or penalizing individual candidates. This is perhaps the first time in India's electoral history that such a step has been taken. The Congress, BSP and the CPIM have questioned the timing of the move and also the response of the Election Commission. The Congress has gone on to state that the Election Commission has completely abjected the constitutional duty under Article 324 which is to ensure the level playing field. Maya Vati of the BSP said that the Election Commission is acting under pressure. The CPIM General Secretary Sitaram Yachuri has also raised crucial questions. He said in a quote, the decision by the Election Commission to stop campaigning a day in advance is not understood. The first thing which is expected by the Election Commission was action against the lumpen elements of the BJP and the TMC for the violence which had taken place and why is there no action being initiated. The move of the Election Commission has yet again put its credibility under the scanner. Now let's move on to Kashmir where violence has hit Pulwama district again where three militants and a soldier were killed on Thursday in a gunfight in Jammu and Kashmir's Pulwama district. Our reporter Kamran was present on the ground and he sent us a ground report and again it puts spotlight on Kashmir and Pulwama which has been the center of conflict. Take a look at his ground report. The election season Pulwama is still remaining very very sensitive even as the Prime Minister, the BJP are making a very strong pitch for national security. Now we are showing you a ground report from Kushinagar and in this election season NewsClick is attempting to speak to people on the ground to understand their issues and how they have been impacted by the policies of the Modi government. Our report from Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh points out to how Narendra Modi assured the sugarcane farmers of the region for improving their lives but the promises were not fulfilled. The farmers are now crumbling under debt and having to cultivate alternative crops such as the turmeric. We spoke to a few farmers about the ongoing crisis and let's watch what they have to say. Who will do your good? In the election of 2014, when Narendra Modi came to Kushinagar to have elections we heard a lot of things about the farmers. A hope was brought upon the farmers who had left the farm and had come to the farm of turmeric and banana. With the promise of Modi we felt that the sugarcane farmers would go away and the farmers had left the farm. We were willing to do the farming and we were also willing to do the farming. The situation is now that the farmers are in the fields. The sugarcane farmers are closed and there is no one to listen to them. And Modi Ji had said that we will only stay in China for 100 days. Modi Ji's promise has lasted for 5 years. Neither did we get China nor did we have any condition to lose our country. In our international section, Iran's Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif visited New Delhi recently and met with the Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in the backdrop of the U.S. sanctions. Sushma Swaraj remained non-committed to any issue here and she assured that the Iranian counterpart that the new government, which will be formed after the election, will take a decision on the issue, keeping in mind the commercial considerations, energy, security and economic interests. India, which is the third largest buyer of oil, has stopped buying Iranian oil since the beginning of the month under the U.S. pressure. Trump administration had also withdrawn from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which is signed by Barack Obama with Iran in 2015. Britain, Germany, France, China and Russia are other signatories of the deal. Iran claims that the unilateral American action is illegal and taken under the influence of anti-Iranian forces in the region. Jawad Zarif's visit was to seek assurances from India that it will defy the American sanctions and continue the oil trade. Now we are moving on to Sudan, where popular demonstrations in the state have been going on for months now and there is a speculation for the announcement of a deal between the Transnational Military Council and the protesters for a while. However, nothing concrete has come out yet. And to discuss more about this, we have with us Abdul from our International Desk. So Abdul's demonstrations have been continuing for a while now. So what is the preliminary reason as to why the demonstrations are still on? The basic reason for the demonstration, which is going on for almost six months now, was primarily the Umar al-Bashir's military regime. People wanted a democratic regime, a civilian-led regime, which was not there and Umar al-Bashir was leading there for almost more than two decades. One, the second reason was immediate reason, which was primarily the economic distress which people were facing. Because of the increasing prices, because of the other economic hardships, people came on the streets and started demonstrating, which is continuing till now. Okay, and the TMC has also gone ahead to halt the negotiations yesterday. So why has that happened? The negotiations are going on for a month, almost a month now, primarily after the removal of Umar al-Bashir in the first week of April. The new military ruler or you can say the head of the Transitional Military Council, Major General Burhan, has promised that the talks will conclude ultimately in bringing the civilian-led administration, which will be a transitional government, but which is not happening primarily for two reasons. The negotiators from the protestors side, which is called the Freedom and Justice Alliance, has not been able to come on a consensus among themselves that what would be the nature of the transitory government. That there is a primary disagreement on who will lead the transitional government. And on that, there was, you can say there was a negotiation could not move forward. And that basically also, there is another reason which is that there is a violence in last four days against the protestors. There are counterclaims and claims that it is led by the military, which is led by the Umar al-Bashir supported forces. Because of that violence, the Burhan regime has announced a halt for all the negotiations for the next three days. And that is the basic reason for that. So on the daily roundup, we'd be following the stories from Sudan as well as how the India stand on the Iranian standoff as well. And with this, it's a wrap on this episode of the Daily Roundup. To follow these stories and many more, please log on to our website, www.newsclick.in. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Thank you so much for watching.