Murshidabad, April 11 -- All eyes are on Murshidabad as the constituency heads into the high-stakes Assembly election, shaping up to be a gripping head-to-head battle between the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

With a history of razor-thin margins, shifting loyalties, and rising political tensions, Murshidabad is once again emerging as one of the most closely watched battlegrounds in West Bengal.

At the centre of this intense contest are two familiar rivals--Gouri Sankar Ghosh and Shaoni Singha Roy. Ghosh, the sitting BJP MLA, first captured the seat in 2021 in a nail-biting finish, defeating Roy by just 2,491 votes--a margin of merely 1.1%. He secured 95,967 votes (42.4%), while Roy, contesting ...