Five states voted. Assam. Kerala. Tamil Nadu. Puducherry. West Bengal.
Four states finished their elections in dignity. One state turned democracy into a war zone.
Welcome to Mamata Banerjee’s Bengal.
14 years of TMC misrule. 14 years of fear. The proof? 2,400 companies of CAPF had to be parachuted into a single state just to let citizens vote without being shot, beaten or threatened. Bengal voted in two phases, every booth shadowed by central forces, because the state police long ago surrendered to TMC’s street power.
Read it again. 2,400 companies. Not Assam. Not Kerala. Not Tamil Nadu. Not Puducherry. Only Bengal.
The toxicity does not end at the polling booth. It has now reached the strong rooms where EVMs are sealed.
Counting day is May 4. Yet days before a single vote is counted, Mamata Banerjee herself stormed the Bhabanipur strong room past midnight and stayed inside for nearly four hours. Her own ministers and candidates were left waiting outside. Her party staged dharnas at Khudiram Anushilan Kendra in Kolkata. TMC leaders surrounded counting centres. Tensions flared. CAPF had to be reinforced at strong rooms. Additional commissioners deployed. Armed police on standby.
A sitting Chief Minister laying siege to an EVM strong room. In any other democracy, this would be a constitutional scandal. In Bengal, it is Wednesday night.
And remember, Supreme Court appointed junior officers were surrounded and attacked during SIR. The highest court of India could not protect its own appointees from TMC mobs.
The fear is so absolute that one survey agency could not even conduct an Exit Poll in Bengal. Not one voter willing to speak. Three of its employees were arrested and sent to jail, confirmed by the agency boss himself, for the crime of asking citizens how they voted.
This is not democracy. This is a hostage situation with a flag on top.
No CM in Assam stormed a strong room. No CM in Kerala threatened the counting process. No CM in Tamil Nadu or Puducherry needed 2,400 companies of central forces to babysit her state. Only Mamata. Only TMC. Only Bengal.
The poison has seeped from the streets into the booths and now into the strong rooms themselves. What comes next? Counting halls? Returning officers? The mandate itself?
Bengal is not voting. Bengal is gasping.
May 4 will tell us whether the people finally broke the cage, or whether the cage swallowed the people.
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