The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has crossed the halfway mark in early leads, and has managed to retain a significant gap between itself and the ruling All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). 

As the trends continued to pour in, TMC leaders termed the situation “fishy”, and urged caution in making claims of a landslide victory. 

With West Bengal heading into verdict day today (May 4, 2026) after over a month of frenzied campaigning, the TMC looks to hold on to power, while the BJP seeks to make a historic breakthrough and claim the State for the first time. 

Meanwhile, the CPI(M) and the Congress will be watching with equal keenness, hoping to reclaim a foothold in the State’s electoral map after five years in the wilderness, following their wipeout in the 2021 polls. 

This year the State saw a turnout of 92.8% in the first phase on April 23, while the second recorded 91.47 % polling on April 29 — the highest in the State since Independence, according to the State’s Chief Electoral Officer. (The Hindu)

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Representatives of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and United National Party (UNP) attended an interactive session with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) to have a sense of the party’s election campaign strategies and the electoral process of India.

MP Nipuna Ranawaka of SLPP and the UNP’s head of the young professionals organisation Sumudu Kekulandala were among the representatives of 18 political parties from 10 countries who participated in the awareness programme.

During the event held on Wednesday (May 01), they met BJP president JP Nadda, Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar and Union Minister of Railways Ashwini Viashnaw in New Delhi and were briefed on the BJP’s election campaign strategies and the electoral process of India.

The two Sri Lankan political party representatives visited India after receiving an invitation from the BJP as part of the KNOW BJP programme launched by Nadda on the party’s 43rd foundation day in 2023. It is reported that the  BJP had invited more than 25 political parties from various parts of the world, including the neighbourhood.

Representatives of the Liberal Party of Australia; the Communist Party of Vietnam; the Awami League of Bangladesh; the Likud Party of Israel; the National Resistance Movement of Uganda; the Chama Cha Mapinduzi of Tanzania; the United Russia Party of Russia; the Militant Socialist Movement, Mauritius Labour Party, Mauritian Militant Movement and Parti Mauricien Social Democrate of Mauritius; and the Nepali Congress, Janamat Party, Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) and the Rashtriya Swatantra Party of Nepal also participated in the event.

Significantly, neither of the two US parties – the ruling Democrats and the Opposition Republicans – was invited, while no political party from Pakistan was invited and the Communist Party of China was also not invited. (Newswire)

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