The outgoing Chief Minister has refused to resign. Short on numbers, Banerjee has accused the BJP of ‘rigging’ and claimed that the TMC has won the elections ‘morally’.
Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to accept Bengal’s electoral verdict exposes the very authoritarianism and contempt for constitutional morality that the Congress-Left ecosystem has long accused the BJP of embodying.
Rejecting her plea for pre arrest protection, the Nashik court observed that the material collected during investigation pointed to a wider and organised effort, making custodial interrogation necessary to uncover the full conspiracy behind the case.
Accused Gaurav Kumar swindled money from Congress leaders across the country on the pretext of arranging tickets for them in the election or positions within the Congress party.
A team of police officials, along with central forces, was carrying out routine night patrols when they were suddenly targeted. The attackers opened fire, injuring several personnel.
The case began after Gujarat ATS arrested Mohiuddin in November 2025 with illegal weapons and four litres of castor oil. The NIA later said his Hyderabad residence had been turned into a clandestine ricin lab.
In its verdict, the special TADA judge held that a conspiracy was hatched by the conspirators against the Hindu community to avenge the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
Several foreign media publications covered the BJP’s thumping victory, though not without peddling propaganda about the victorious party’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ ideology, ‘Muslim minority under threat’ bogey and falsehoods about the pre-poll SIR exercise.
A decade of quiet, decentralised groundwork by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh reshaped Bengal’s social consciousness and voter behaviour, laying the foundation for the BJP’s historic breakthrough.