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Thursday, 30 April 2026

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The Telegraph Online Published 19.10.13, 12:00 AM

Bloodless polls, record voting: Bengal witnesses an election with no deaths after decades

Poll violence had grown gradually to become part of Bengal’s 'political culture' since the first post-Independence election in the early 1950s

BJP candidate for Bhabanipur and Nandigram constituencies, Suvendu Adhikari, visits a polling station in his constituency during the second and final phase of the state Assembly elections, in Kolkata, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. Tension flared up when the Suvendu Adhikari visited a polling booth and TMC workers protested with slogans, prompting police intervention and a complaint by the opposition leader to the EC seeking deployment of additional central forces.

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I will win Bhabanipur by at least 30,000 votes