A day after West Bengal Chief Minister and AITC Chairperson Mamata Banerjee gave the clarion call for 2026 Assembly elections stating that the party’s goal was to score above 215 seats in the polls, triumphing against BJP’s voter list manipulation, a digital war erupted across social media platforms between Bengal’s ruling and opposition parties.
On Thursday, AITC fired the first shot posting a bold 2026 election “scoreboard.” “The writing is on the wall,” wrote AITC, with a digital scoreboard-style graphic that showed an “OUT” sign against Bangla-Birodhi Bohiragotos of BJP.
This strongly aligns with Mamata Banerjee’s statements made during the AITC convention at Kolkata’s Netaji Indoor Stadium a day earlier wherein she said, “Bengal respects Bohiragotos as guests but will not allow them to occupy Bengal. Their game is to capture Bengal and erase our culture.”
On Friday, AITC amped up its narrative with yet another political cartoon on BJP’s “ghost-voters” with a Satyajit Ray twist. In the creative, Bengali culture’s beloved Bhooter Raja from Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne – a Satyajit Ray classic – is holding a scroll that criticises the BJP for adding fake voters to the electoral list. “Even ghosts are tired of @BJP4India’s Fake Voter list fraud!” AITC wrote on X.
On Thursday, Mamata Banerjee exposed the BJP’s alleged manipulation of voter lists ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, accusing the Election Commission of complicity. She presented evidence of fake voters being added from states like Haryana and Gujarat, drawing parallels with similar tactics in Delhi and Maharashtra. Banerjee also warned that if corrective measures are not taken, indefinite protests outside the Election Commission’s office will follow. Trinamool Congress has set up a state-level committee to tackle these irregularities and is pushing for a thorough revision of the voter list.
