Take the three seats of Cooch Behar North, Cooch Behar South and Dinhata in North Bengal’s Cooch Behar district. The BJP won the Dinhata seat by just 57 votes in 2021; the number of voters deleted is 16,442. In 2021, a total of 23 of the 77 seats the party had won came from north Bengal. We do not have the organisational strength and the administrative backing to carry out electoral manipulations,” said a senior Bengal BJP leader. In the seats that BJP won they could because Trinamool’s manipulation of the electoral rolls did not work.

Source: The Telegraph December 21, 2025 07:35 UTC