Imagine voting for a PM who doesn’t give two fvcks about your vehicles, education, or basic infrastructure, and is only focused on religion politics and foreign trips while failing at that too.
Ek mandir banwane ke liye poore desh ko loota, sukh chain chheena, dange karwaye, baer phailaya ab wahi mandir lut gaya hai toh ro rahe hain. What did you expect, losers? Elect looters, get looted!
27 Lakh Voters were deleted in West Bengal.
These were not 'dead people' or 'bangladeshis'. These were real people who had already appealed to get their votes restored. The Supreme court could’ve delayed the West Bengal elections until the tribunals finished hearing the appeals of these voters. But they didn’t. Only around 1607 voters were restored in time by phase 2 of these elections. Almost every appeal that was heard turned out to be a wrongful deletion.
In any functional democracy, this would not count as a free and fair election where a large section of voters have lost their voting rights. I'm not saying that TMC would've won for sure if they were added back, maybe BJP would still win, but the question is about the fairness of these elections.
Free and fair elections are a spectrum. Ever since Delhi-Maharashtra-Bihar-Bengal, this needle has moved more and more towards being unfair. Each time somehow the opposition parties participate as usual in the electoral process thinking that they can still pull of a win despite the compromised EC, ED, CBI etc. and each time they have been proven wrong after 2024 Lok Sabha. The question is, at what point will they feel that the level of unfairness is so unfair that elections should be boycotted?
I personally feel TMC should have refused to participate in these elections until all those 27 lakh appeals were finished being heard.
My Final Take Before May 4
I believe most pollsters are playing it safe this time. Bengal has rarely delivered fractured mandates—and there’s a reason for that.
Bengalis are deeply emotional voters. They don’t hedge. They don’t sit in the middle. They swing hard. They love with intensity, and they reject with the same force. In Bengal politics, it’s never incremental—it’s absolute.
It’s always everything or nothing.
That’s why I don’t buy the idea of a tight, fragmented result. If there is a winner, that winner is likely crossing 180–200 seats.
Now the real question: where is that consolidation happening?
There’s a narrative being pushed—that Left, Congress, ISF voters have tactically shifted to TMC to stop BJP. That leaders across ideological lines have silently aligned to ensure Mamata Banerjee’s fourth term.
Frankly, that feels like overthinking.
What seems more plausible is the reverse: a consolidation among Hindu voters cutting across party lines. Even traditional TMC supporters from Hindu backgrounds may have voted differently this time.
If turnout numbers are indeed being driven by that consolidation, then we could be looking at a historic shift.
History offers a pattern. Whether 1946 or 2026—when people feel their identity, land, or existence is at stake, divisions blur. Political preferences take a backseat. Survival instincts take over.
And when that happens, Bengal doesn’t fragment—it unifies decisively.
May 4 will give us the answer.
But one thing is clear: when pushed to the edge, people know how to stand together.