India, April 7 -- WB CM Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee

By Jayanta Ghosal

In a unique electoral contest, West Bengal's 2026 Assembly polls are being shaped by a fierce battle over voter lists, with the BJP pushing deletions and the TMC alleging politically driven exclusions, the ruling party apparently holding a slight edge. A report by Jayanta Ghosal

The 2026 West Bengal Assembly Election stands out as a unique political contest. It is perhaps the only election where the main opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), wants to win by removing certain names from the voter list, while the ruling party, the Trinamool Congress (TMC), is insisting that all categories of voters should remain on the rolls, including...