Overview
- Modi, campaigning in Siliguri on Sunday, promised to speed up citizenship for refugees under the CAA and warned against demographic change in North Bengal.
- Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of a Rs 1,000-crore plan to unseat the TMC, citing a viral Humayun Kabir video that PTI could not verify and that BJP and AJUP say is AI-generated.
- Banerjee said the BJP plans to split West Bengal through a delimitation exercise and pushed warnings about NRC and detention camps, claims the BJP has not confirmed.
- The Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision struck off roughly 7.33 lakh names in Murshidabad and 4.4 lakh in Malda after adjudication, leading to April 1 protests and a Supreme Court-ordered NIA probe that has yielded 35 arrests.
- Deleted voters are lining up to file appeals at local offices while tribunals remain patchy, and smaller entrants like AIMIM and Humayun Kabir’s AJUP could split Muslim votes in key seats as polls open on April 23 and 29 with counting on May 4.