The Election Commission of India suspends five officers and initiates disciplinary proceedings for their serious misconduct and failure to maintain neutrality during the West Bengal Legislative Elections 2026. The suspended officers include Sandip Garai, Addl. SP, Diamond Harbour; Sajal Mondal, SDPO, Diamond Harbour; Mausam Chakraborty, Inspector in Charge, Diamond Harbour Police Station; Ajay Bag, Inspector in Charge, Falta Police Station; Subhechha Bag, Officer in Charge, Usthi Police Station.
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TMC National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee said that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is panicking and is only trying to run the narrative through the national media that it is leading in the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026, predicting that the “TMC has hit a century” in the first phase of polling.
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“I am not a political astrologer. Whenever I have made predictions on political results, it has clicked. In the first phase, we have hit a century. There is panic in the BJP camp. They are calling journalists and asking them to run the narrative that the BJP has done well in the first phase and is cruising ahead,” he said.
