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Assembly elections 2026 LIVE: Repolling set to be carried out across 15 booths in West Bengal today

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Assembly elections 2026 LIVE: Repolling set to be carried out across 15 booths in West Bengal today

The Government College of Engineering at Chithode where votes polled in six Assembly constituencies are to be counted on May 4 in Erode in Tamil Nadu. | Photo Credit: Govarthan M Election Comission of India (ECI) has ordered that fresh voting will be held across all 285 polling stations in Falta assembly constituency of West Bengal on May 21 even as repolling was held in 15 booths in Paschim Magrahat and Diamond Harbour assembly constituencies on Saturday (May 2, 2026).Explained: Tamil Nadu elections and the long gap between polling and countingAccording to Election...

Assembly Elections Exit Poll 2026 Date and Time: How to check details for Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala?

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Assembly Elections Exit Poll 2026 Date and Time: How to check details for Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam and Kerala?

Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Voting Live Updates: The repolls were ordered in 11 polling stations of the Magrahat Paschim assembly constituency and four in Diamond Harbour.

Bengal polls: Calcutta HC cautions EC on preventive detentions

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Bengal polls: Calcutta HC cautions EC on preventive detentions

4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: May 1, 2026 10:28 AM IST Outside the EVM strong room at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra in Jorasanko Assembly constituency in West Bengal on Thursday. (Express photo by Partha Paul)Calcutta High Court news: The Calcutta High Court has dismissed a plea filed by the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) challenging the deployment of central government and PSU employees as counting supervisors and assistants in the West Bengal assembly elections, holding that the decision falls within the domain of the Election Commission and does not suffer from any illegality. Justice...

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Bengal records highest-ever voter turnout since independence | India News

Bengal records highest-ever voter turnout since independence | India News Hindustan Times

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West Bengal Exit Poll Results LIVE: People's Pulse predicts TMC sweep; Matrize suggests BJP win | India News

West Bengal Exit Poll Results LIVE: People's Pulse predicts TMC sweep; Matrize suggests BJP win | India News Hindustan Times

IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma was not on EC’s initial observer list for West Bengal

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IPS officer Ajay Pal Sharma was not on EC’s initial observer list for West Bengal

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav during a press conference at the party office, in Lucknow on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday (April 29, 2026) claimed that a “parallel administrative structure” led by Central forces has been created in West Bengal to influence the election, and urged voters to oppose the “misuse of officials”.Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Mr. Yadav said, “In Bengal, Didi (Mamata Banerjee) is going to win with historic votes. The people of Bengal are voting in large numbers in her favour....

As Bengal votes today, why BJP feels it has an advantage

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As Bengal votes today, why BJP feels it has an advantage

Atal Behari Vajpayee once remarked, wistfully, to colleagues how painful it was for him that the BJP that had made strides in different parts of the country should hardly make any headway in West Bengal.Vajpayee’s words had a poignancy because Bengal was the home state of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, who founded the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, the earlier avatar of the BJP, in 1951. And, what is more, Vajpayee who went on to become the Prime Minister, had cut his teeth in politics by working as a personal assistant of...

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