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West Bengal assembly poll rout: Mamata Banerjee rediscovers INDI bloc after ditching it before 2024 LS polls

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2026

A day after the BJP’s victory in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to resign and struck a conciliatory note, suddenly calling for...

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TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee refuses to resign despite humiliating defeat in West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election, claims ‘moral victory’

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2026

A day after losing the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (5th May) refused to tender her resignation as...

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Family members of ‘Lottery King’ Santiago Martin, largest electoral bond buyer with ties to TMC, DMK, Congress and CPIM, win 3 seats in Tamil...

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2026

Jose Charles Martin, son of Santiago Martian, launched his party, the Latchiya Jananayaka Katchi party, in December 2025. Jose made a victorious debut, winning two seats. His party is a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).

News Reports

West Bengal Assembly Election 2026: As opposition and left liberals blame SIR for TMC’s defeat, data shows Mamata’s party won 13 of 20 seats...

Anurag - 5 May, 2026

Rahul Gandhi, Sayema, Arfa Khanum Sherwani and Sanjay Singh blamed the SIR after the results. Yet the top deletion seats tell a different story, with the TMC winning 13 out of the 20.

News Reports

How BJP went from 0 seats to winning the West Bengal election in 15 years: A closer look at the architects who made it...

Dibakar Dutta - 5 May, 2026

The meteoric rise of the BJP from 0 seats in 2011 to winning the 2026 Vidhan Sabha election tells a different story. It did not happen by sheer chance. The party was built brick by brick by its State leaders and its cadres in the past 15 years.

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Mamata Banerjee in denial: TMC supremo cries foul claiming “BJP looted 100 seats” after poll loss in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2026

TMC chief Mamata Banerjee raised the familiar bogey of 'vote chori' after an emphatic electoral result pushed her party out of power in West Bengal.

Opinions

As BJP heads towards a historic win in West Bengal, liberals suffer a massive meltdown, ignore 15-years of anti-incumbency and declare BJP victory ‘unfair’

Shraddha Pandey - 4 May, 2026

The anti-BJP brigade has recycled its formulaic ‘Hum hare nahi humein haraya gaya hai’ bogey by casting aspersions on the integrity of the Election Commission, instead of gracefully accepting the Janadesh.

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Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi suffers a massive defeat in Jorhat constituency, party reduced from 29 seats to 20 under his leadership in the...

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2026

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is leading comfortably from the Jalukbari constituency.

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BJP clinches Tripura, Nagaland bypolls; tight contests continue elsewhere

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2026

The bypoll scoreboard on Monday began tilting in the BJP’s favour early, with the party locking in two strategically significant victories even as counting...

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