Mamata Banerjee: The draft list for Bhabanipur Assembly seat excludes 44,770 voters

Mamata Banerjee: A total of 44,770 electors from the previous list as of October 2025 have been removed from the Bhabanipur Assembly seat in South Kolkata, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is the elected representative, according to the West Bengal draft voters’ list that was released earlier today.

There are 127 people who are not allowed to vote at booth number 260, which is where Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee, the general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, cast their ballots. Thirteen of these 127 voters have passed away, while the remaining votes are either moved, untraceable, duplicate, or deemed acceptable for elimination for other reasons.

Recall that Adhikari won the seat from Nandigram in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections, beating Mamata Banerjee, the candidate of the Trinamool Congress and the Chief Minister, by just under 2,000 votes.

Afterwards, Mamata Banerjee won the Bhabanipur by-elections and was re-elected as Chief Minister for a third term in a row.

Interestingly, the Kolkata (Dakshin) Lok Sabha seat includes Bhabanipur as one of its seven Assembly constituencies.

In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Mala Roy, a candidate for the Trinamool Congress, lost in most of the municipal corporation wards in both Bhabanipur and the nearby Rashbehari seat, although winning a second term from Kolkata (Dakshin).

Even in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s Ward Number 73, where the Chief Minister casts a ballot, the Trinamool Congress fell behind in 2024.

The Chief Minister voiced concerns about voter list tampering in the Bhabanipur seat in October of this year. He also subtly accused the BJP, without naming the party, of attempting to drive foreigners from Bhabanipur.

In response to the Chief Minister’s accusation, Amit Malviya, the head of the BJP’s IT Cell and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, released a statement asserting that the Chief Minister’s anxiety was due to his fear of losing the seat in the Assembly elections.