West Bengal Elections 2026 LIVE: There is panic in the BJP camp, says TMC Abhishek Banerjee

TMC leader Abishek Banerjee, with others, during a roadshow, ahead of the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections, at Diamond Harbour, in South 24 Parganas district, on April 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

TMC National General Secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee said that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) is panicking and is only trying to run the narrative through the national media that it is leading in the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026, predicting that the “TMC has hit a century” in the first phase of polling.

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“I am not a political astrologer. Whenever I have made predictions on political results, it has clicked. In the first phase, we have hit a century. There is panic in the BJP camp. They are calling journalists and asking them to run the narrative that the BJP has done well in the first phase and is cruising ahead,” he said.

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With just days remaining for the second phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal, BJP’s Maniktala candidate Tapas Roy approached the Election Commission, urging that the upcoming polling be conducted in the same manner as the first phase.

On Friday (April 24, 2026), Roy told ANI, “We had come to the Election Commission. The second phase of elections should be held in the same manner as the first phase was conducted. After a long time, the people of Bengal have witnessed such elections. Thanks to the Central Armed Police Forces and the Election Commission.”