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Islamists and liberals play victim about ‘Muslim names’ being deleted from electoral rolls: How illegal migration is the highest in Bengal, and how their...

Shriti Sagar - 8 April, 2026

Initially, the EC deleted 58.25 lakh voters who were found to be deceased, absent, shifted, or had duplicate entries in the draft rolls published last December.

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‘Everyone must break their necks, spines, and arms’: TMC’s Abhishek Banerjee under fire for instigating violence against the BJP, complained filed

OpIndia Staff - 8 April, 2026

The BJP highlighted how, during the 2021 assembly elections in the state, post-poll violence happened at the behest of TMC leadership.

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Women positioned at the front, provocative announcements from local mosque, switched off CCTV: What NIA’s preliminary inquiry report in Malda violence case reveals

Shraddha Pandey - 7 April, 2026

The probe agency’s preliminary findings in the case indicate a simultaneous emergence of demonstration and road blockades across multiple locations, pointing to prior planning and strategic execution by an organised network rather than a ‘protest’ driven by organic anger over SIR.

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West Bengal: Around 91 lakh voters removed after SIR, ECI to release final rolls; Murshidabad records highest deletion

OpIndia Staff - 7 April, 2026

Earlier draft and final lists had already removed over 63 lakh names from electoral rolls. Judicial scrutiny added another 27 lakh deletions. North 24 Parganas recorded second highest removals, while elections will be held on 23rd and 29th April. Results on 4th May.

Law

“Motivated, pre-planned, and deeply instigating”: SC slams Bengal bureaucracy, hands gherao of judicial officials in Malda probe to NIA

OpIndia Staff - 6 April, 2026

"We direct NIA to take over investigation. The investigation reports shall be filed before NIA Court at Kolkata," the SC order stated.

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TMC goons vandalise BJP office in the presence of their party candidate Ratna Chatterjee, FIR lodged after video goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 6 April, 2026

On Sunday (5th April), goons belonging to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) vandalised the party office of the BJP in Parnasree in Behala locality...

West Bengal: Pro-China ‘journalist’ Shahin calls for anarchy and violence in Malda, had earlier downplayed incident where Muslim waiter served beef to Hindu Brahmin

OpIndia Staff - 6 April, 2026

A quick perusal of his Facebook profile reveals that Shahin is a pro-China propagandist. He has downplayed Chinese atrocities on Tibetans and opposed the indigenous demand for the independence of Tibet.

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Is Mamata Banerjee signalling to Muslims that ‘satanic’ BJP will oust them? Here’s how Mamata is playing to Islamic sentiments in the run-up to...

OpIndia Staff - 5 April, 2026

At a rally in Samsherganj, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee labeled the BJP "satanic," warning that a TMC defeat would destroy Bengal’s cultural and linguistic identity.