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WEst Bengal election 2026 unrecorded: The on-going elections in westward Bengal ar among the rural area’s fiercest, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aiming to unseat the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after 15 years in power.Home minister Amit Shah, speaking at a rally in Kolkata today, said the state will have a “Bengal born, Bengali-speaking” chief minister when the BJP comes to power. PM Narendra Modi, in another rally, said BJP was looking at a win in the state and claimed the TMC's “maha jungle raj” was now over.West Bengal Assembly election 2026: Phase 1The first phase of assembly elections in West Bengal concluded on Thursday with record-breaking voter participation. Despite a significant revision of electoral rolls that saw lakhs of names removed, voters turned out in historic numbers.Chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar said that these were the highest polling percentages recorded in both West Bengal and Tamil Nadu since Independence.In West Bengal, the 152 constituencies involved in this phase saw a turnout of 92.35% by late evening. This is the highest level of participation for these specific areas since at least 2011.Deleted names fail to deter votersEven with nearly 10% of names deleted from the voter lists in these seats, the absolute number of people who voted, 33.2 million, exceeded the totals from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The highest activity was seen in Murarai at 96.95%, while Mekhliganj recorded the lowest at 82.12%.This high engagement has led both the ruling parties and the opposition to claim they are on the path to victory. For chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s TMC and the opposition BJP, the election is a high-stakes battle following a political firestorm over the recent voter list revisions.Limited relief for excluded votersDespite the strong voter turnout, a large number of people were unable to vote due to a controversial "logical discrepancy" category used during the revision of electoral rolls. While 1.4 million people sought help to get their names back on the list before the first phase, judicial tribunals cleared only 139 people.

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