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The Great Bengal Exclusion | It’s final: 1,468 more names added by EC, after 139
April 30, 2026 7:36 pm
6 deleted in final list. Total 34 lakh applications were pending before 19 tribunals, including for exclusions; no clarity on how many cases considered before second supplementary list
The Bengal line-up: TMC bets on continuity, old guard; BJP turns to newcomers
April 28, 2026 3:19 pm
While the TMC has relied on a greater share of candidates who lost in 2021, the BJP has dropped several candidates who lost five years ago
Yogendra Yadav writes: In the West Bengal election, SIR and the anatomy of exclusion
April 28, 2026 1:15 pm
Over the past 10 months, we have normalised the deletion of large numbers of names in the SIR. Even by those standards, Bengal is an extraordinary case of SIR-led disenfranchisement.
SIR stokes fears, Bengali asmita divides but on fractured ground, fault-lines don’t run straight
April 28, 2026 1:25 pm
The effects of the voter roll revision will be read into the final scoreboard on May 4. But for now, it plays out in a manner that does not appear univocal or uniform.
‘Can’t be trusted to vote… but trusted enough to conduct the elections’: Bengal poll officers whose names stand deleted from rolls
April 28, 2026 12:06 pm
Turned away by Supreme Court, 65 election officers, all govt employees, some of whom also officiated in the Phase I voting, are waiting before Bengal tribunals now
More than Didi vs BJP/EC/SIR, it’s Didi vs Didi: In silences, you also hear talk of ektu poriborton
April 30, 2026 7:36 pm
She, the uprooter of the Left, is the provider of cash transfers and welfare schemes. This second contest may be playing out not so much as Didi vs SIR/EC/BJP. It is, more, Didi vs Didi.
Decoding the Bengal turnout surge: SIR effect, robust voting by those on rolls
April 28, 2026 12:08 pm
The ruling TMC and challenger BJP interpreted this record turnout in opposing ways, each announcing a mandate in its favour and the beginning of the end of the other.
Meet one of 139 voters restored to Bengal rolls: ‘All are asking how... if people want, I will not go to vote’
April 23, 2026 9:51 pm
“This is embarrassing … I didn’t want this. This may ruin my political career,” says Dhulian Municipality chairperson Injamul Islam, a TMC leader.
Why Mamata is facing battle of her life: SIR deletions to agencies' heat, 'anti-incumbency'
April 23, 2026 9:51 pm
In the run-up to Bengal polls, ED and NIA have intensified their probes into various cases involving TMC candidates, including ministers Sujit Bose and Rathin Ghosh, with ED also cracking down on I-PAC
The Big Bengal Exclusion: 34 lakh appeals, only 139 are cleared to vote today
April 23, 2026 9:51 pm
Getting off the ground only days to go before polls, tribunals come out with supplementary list for first phase as ordered by SC
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