Assembly election LIVE: Judicial officers' gherao fresh flashpoint in TMC-BJP war in West Bengal; EC hands over probe to NIA

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Agitation against SIR dispersed crossed West Bengal districts connected Thursday (April 2, 2026)

Updated - April 03, 2026 09:02 americium IST

People laying seige extracurricular BDO bureau astatine Kaliachak Block II, successful Malda wherever 7 judicial officers were gheraoed connected Wednesday. The mob was protesting against ample fig of deletions of voters who were nether judicial adjudication..

Malda, West Bengal, 01 April 2026: People laying seige extracurricular BDO bureau astatine Kaliachak Block II, successful Malda wherever 7 judicial officers were gheraoed connected Wednesday. The mob was protesting against ample fig of deletions of voters who were nether judicial adjudication.. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to get successful Puducherry connected Friday (April 3, 2026) to clasp a roadworthy show, aiming to galvanise enactment for the NDA candidates up of the upcoming Assembly polls.

In West Bengal, a time aft judicial officers prosecute successful Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work were confined wrong a artifact bureau successful Malda’s Kaliachak for hours, the Election Commission handed implicit the probe into the substance to the NIA, pursuing a Supreme Court directive.

As governmental confrontations intensified and the Supreme Court stepped successful to censure the State medication implicit the Malda episode, agitation against the SIR of electoral rolls dispersed crossed districts connected Thursday (April 2, 2026), conscionable 3 weeks up of the archetypal signifier of the West Bengal Assembly election.

Assam, Kerala, and the Union Territory of Puducherry volition spell to the polls connected April 9, 2026. In Tamil Nadu, the predetermination volition beryllium conducted connected April 23. The archetypal signifier of elections volition beryllium held connected April 23, 2026, successful West Bengal, and the 2nd signifier connected April 29, 2026. The counting for each these elections volition beryllium held connected May 4, 2026.

April 03, 2026 08:51
West Bengal | Judicial officers' gherao caller flashpoint successful TMC-BJP war; EC hands implicit probe to NIA
The Election Commission has handed implicit the probe into the gherao of 7 judicial officers engaged successful the Special Intensive Revision workout successful West Bengal’s Malda to the NIA arsenic the incidental plunged the State into caller turmoil, with the TMC and the BJP blaming each different for it.
While Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the canvass sheet of fomenting unrest to facilitate President’s regularisation successful the poll-bound state, the BJP alleged the TMC had orchestrated the Wednesday (April 1, 2026) protestation to support “bogus voters”.
As governmental confrontations intensified and the Supreme Court stepped successful to censure the authorities medication implicit the Malda episode, agitation against the SIR of electoral rolls dispersed crossed districts connected Thursday, conscionable 3 weeks up of the archetypal signifier of the West Bengal Assembly election.
Protesters burned tyres, blocked roads and held soundless marches successful Malda, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar and Purba Bardhaman, wherever voting volition beryllium held connected April 23.
- PTI

Published - April 03, 2026 09:01 americium IST

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