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Bengal BJP’s advice to BLAs: Be careful about seats with massive rise in voter count
The Statesman Kolkata
|October 22, 2025
Amid the possibilities of announcement for Special Intensive Review (SIR), the West Bengal unit of BJP has cautioned its booth-level agents (BLAs) to be extra cautious about those Assembly constituencies which have witnessed a massive increase in voters’ numbers over a period.
Astate committee member said that the party’s BLAs have been especially advised to be extra vigilant during the SIR exercise, about those Assembly constituencies which have witnessed over 40 per centincrease in voters numbers since 2011, the year which marked the end of the 34-year Left Front rule in West Bengal and beginning of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamul Congress regime.
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