Hyderabad, May 8 -- It has been four days since the far-right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party won the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections. As the previous Cabinet led by Mamata Banerjee has officially been dissolved as of Thursday, May 7, the state remains volatile with multiple incidents of violence reported following the election win.

Videos on social media show Bengal taken over by BJP karyakartas (party workers), waving saffron flags, chanting Jai Shri Ram, while applying sindoor on artefacts, breaking down historical statues, renaming street names and in one instance even bringing down a bulldozer on offices of All India Trinamool Congress along with a meat shop.

On May 4, the counting day, a Hindutva mob was recorded vandalising Haji ...