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uddu wrote: ↑31 Mar 2026 19:19 West Bengal Polls: 'Took This Responsibility To Make My Country Proud,' Says Leander Paes
West Bengal Polls: 'Took This Responsibility To Make My Country Proud,' Says Leander Paes
Tennis icon Leander Paes joins BJP ahead of West Bengal polls, declaring he took this responsibility to make his country proud. Watch his bold entry into politics as elections heat up in two phases on April 23 and 29.
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Grok confirm the news and news links provided in the below link.ECI made a massive expose on TMC's booth rigging plans
> ECI extensively reviewed security footage of booths for Bengal elections in 2021 AE/2024 GE
> They found footage missing for 30% booths + another 30% had merely 60 mins footage for whole polling day!!!
> This means TMC rigged 60% of booths in Bengal in the last two elections
> The companies who handled the surveillance have now been changed with the tender now to be given to three companies based OUTSIDE West Bengal
C: হঠাৎ যদি উঠল কথা
Wow! Unbelievable. Then how we can claim that elections were fair and transparent? Will there be any punitive measures? Politicians are not afraid of courts, they know nothing will happen to them. Add to it Modi's full support to the present state of judiciary...
Footage irregularities (30% missing + 30% partial recordings)
ECI examined recordings from the 2021 West Bengal Assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
~30% of cameras had no recording at all.
Another ~30% had only about 30 minutes (half an hour) of footage — specifically at the start and end of polling, with the rest blank.
These issues were especially noted at sensitive booths where violence had been reported.e0ca6f6a61d33cbf1a
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Economic Times (Mar 16, 2026): Confirms 30% no recording + 30% partial, contract scrapped, three new outside-state vendors.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/electi ... 604505.cms
Mahesh Jethmalani@JethmalaniM
Malda was not random.
NIA has been given the investigation.
Mofakkarul Islam, accused mastermind of Malda violence is a TMC leader, who has been arrested.
He is seen with TMC leader Kalyan Banerjee in several pictures.
My reading: when Bengal’s ruling machine panics over voter scrutiny, Malda is where the nerves show first. It is a border district with a 165.5 km frontier with Bangladesh and a key junction in North Bengal’s political geography.
That geography matters.
Because in a place like Malda, demography, documentation, migration anxieties, and electoral arithmetic are never separate conversations. They collapse into one political reality. District-level population data shows Malda’s religious profile and demography has shifted over time, making it one of Bengal’s most politically sensitive districts.
Demographic data alone is enough.
But in a border district long associated with infiltration debates, fake-currency routes, smuggling corridors, and political patronage, nobody can honestly pretend these issues are disconnected from voter-roll politics.
Then comes Kaliachak.
For years, Kaliachak and the wider Malda belt have repeatedly surfaced in reporting around cross-border criminality, counterfeit currency, and mob volatility. This is not some politically neutral patch of land. It is one of the most combustible belts in Bengal.
So when seven judicial officers were gheraoed there for hours during voter-list adjudication, this did not look to me like a spontaneous local protest.
It looked like a political stress reaction.
But the issue is no longer merely what happened in Malda.
The real question is: who benefits when voter scrutiny in a district like Malda is met with siege tactics, blocked highways, and intimidation of officers?
My answer is blunt.
Malda is politically precious.
Historically it was a Congress bastion. Over time, as Congress weakened, Trinamool moved aggressively into this minority-heavy, border-sensitive belt because districts like Malda and Murshidabad became central to its political insulation.
That is why Malda is not just another district for TMC.
It is a bastion.
And bastions are defended by every possible means once panic sets in.
Now add the most recent development.
Police have arrested Mofakkarul Islam, described in reporting as the alleged mastermind of the Malda gherao, from Bagdogra Airport while he was allegedly trying to leave for Bengaluru. Another accused was arrested with him.
That matters.
Because the moment the alleged main conspirator begins to look less like an outraged citizen and more like an operator trying to slip away, the moral theatre around “public anger” starts collapsing.
Then the whole episode begins to look exactly like what many suspected from the start: organised pressure, political shielding, and then attempted escape once the heat came home asking difficult questions.
To my mind, that is the real significance of Malda.
This is where border anxiety, demographic change, identity mobilisation, electoral dependence, and administrative murk all collide.
And that is precisely why TMC cannot afford to lose control of the district’s political arithmetic.
Because once a serious clean-up begins in a place like Malda, the fight is no longer over names on paper.
It becomes a fight over the ecosystem that benefited from blurred lines for years.
The CPM played versions of this game.
TMC perfected it.
And now the Supreme Court has exposed what happens when that ecosystem feels threatened: highways are blocked, judges are surrounded, the state looks away, and grievance is weaponised into muscle.
So no, Malda was not random.
Malda was the point.
Because in Bengal, when power feels threatened, it does not defend the voter list.
It defends the vote-bank architecture of Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee behind it.
𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗟-𝟬𝟰(Till 𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲)
𝗕𝗝𝗣-𝟭𝟯𝟱-𝟭𝟱𝟱
𝗧𝗠𝗖-𝟭𝟯𝟮-𝟭𝟱𝟮
𝗢𝗧𝗛-𝟮-𝟴
(Almost a reversal of last opinion poll,BJP+ has been focusing on their most conducive seats. Situation As Such, things may or may not change)
(1)
𝗧𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟 𝗡𝗔𝗗𝗨 𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗟-𝟬𝟰 (Till 𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲)
𝗗𝗠𝗞+-𝟭𝟬𝟴-𝟭𝟮𝟴
𝗡𝗗𝗔-𝟲𝟰-𝟴𝟬
𝗧𝗩𝗞-𝟯𝟲-𝟰𝟲
𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦-𝟬𝟬-𝟬𝟭
(One of the most volatile election so far, after the arrival of candidate list, TVK is getting more traction on ground)
(2)
𝗞𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗔 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗟𝗬 𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡- 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗟 - (Till 𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲)
𝗨𝗗𝗙- 𝟲𝟱-𝟳𝟳
𝗟𝗗𝗙- 𝟲𝟭-𝟳𝟯
𝗡𝗗𝗔- 𝟭-𝟲
(Another close contest on Card with any of the two prominent fronts can win it)
(4)
𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗔𝗠 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗢𝗣𝗜𝗡𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗟𝗟
(Till 𝟬𝟰/𝟬𝟰/𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲)
𝗡𝗗𝗔- 𝟳𝟲-𝟵𝟬
𝗜𝗡𝗖+ - 𝟯𝟯-𝟰𝟭
𝗔𝗜𝗨𝗗𝗙- 𝟭-𝟰
𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗦-𝟬-𝟮
(NDA holds the lead even after some rumbling took place post declaration of candidates)
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