The march of the saffron party has been relentless in the East. It has moved through the cracks left behind by ageing regional satraps, turning every faultline into a foothold
BJP’s Bengal Breakthrough: How It Changed the State’s Political Map
A voter deletion exercise spiked up voter turnout, turning India's most intensely fought election the most unpredictable.
While disputes around the legitimacy of 27 lakh voters remain unsolved, filmy heroism, comic relief, barbs and jibes added colour to the tainted West Bengal elections
In a largely bipolar election between the TMC and the BJP, the Congress and the Left remain factors in about 60 of the state’s 294 assembly seats
First phase polling pattern hints 20-25 lakh ‘sleeping voters’—who usually do not vote—may have turned up at the polling stations this year
In several of the 41 Muslim-majority assembly constituencies, the religious demographic composition of the voter rolls has shifted. Will this benefit the BJP?
They carried out booth level voter verification, but found themselves deleted from the roll. They still have poll duties. They feel betrayed and broken.
The BJP’s all-out war against the TMC’s rule in Bengal has turned it into the most intense assembly election of 2026, albeit with greater democratic concerns.
As more than 27 lakh people have their democratic rights suspended, Amit Shah’s ‘Mission Bengal’ aims to bulldoze all equations, but they may still have to fight the maths
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