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The directive comes after recovery of crude bombs in the poll-bound state and reports of a minor blast.

Exit polls are carried out soon after people vote to understand voting patterns and estimate possible results.

Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav and Trinamool have accused the BJP of trying to tilt the vote in their favour by "deploying agents" to intimidate voters.

Election 2026 highlights: Voting in Bengal's high-stakes election battle will end on Wednesday, with more than 3.22 crore voters eligible to cast their votes in the second phase of Assembly polls across 142 seats. Mamata Banerjee is contesting in the

Election 2026 LIVE: The Trinamool Congress shared a post by BJP national spokesperson Ajay Alok on Tuesday, alleging he issued “death threats” to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The party also took a dig at the Election Commission, saying it

 KK Shailaja is a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and former Health Minister from Kerala.

ED cracks down on suspected interstate liquor racket, raids 9 sites in Arunachal

The desertion was the latest in a series of setbacks for the party, which political novices founded in 2013 to “uproot corruption from public life”

Election 2026 LIVE: Trinamool Congress State General Secretary Tanmay Ghosh on Sunday said that 'no outsider', including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, will be seen in West Bengal from May 4.

Election 2026 highlights: While 152 of Bengal's constituencies went to elections on April 23, the remaining 142 seats will vote on April 29, with results scheduled for May 4.