{"id":199335,"date":"2026-04-30T19:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=199335"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:29:32","slug":"bjp-led-govt-treating-electoral-process-as-a-military-occupation-of-west-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2026\/04\/30\/bjp-led-govt-treating-electoral-process-as-a-military-occupation-of-west-bengal.html","title":{"rendered":"BJP-led govt treating electoral process as a \u201cmilitary occupation\u201d of West Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad:The Indian government has deployed substantial numbers of forces to West Bengal, which the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) describes as a &#8220;war on Bengal&#8221; and a &#8220;military occupation&#8221; aimed at defeating Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s government.<br><br>According to Kashmir Media Service, the largest deployment in history during elections has created a permanent war-zone surveillance India rather than a democratic election.<br><br>Armed forces seized a 100-meter perimeter around booths to grant the Bharatiya Janata Party-led center absolute control over the physical vote.<br><br>Border Security Force (BSF) and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) night dominance marches used overwhelming force to suppress voter turnout in specific demographic pockets.<br><br>Booths fortified by armed guards and armored vehicles have stifled the election\u2019s energy with state-mandated silence.<br><br>Late-night raids and 2,300+ arrests without trial served as proof that security forces are BJP\u2019s political enforcement wing.<br><br>Observers like UP\u2019s IPS Ajay Pal Sharma used &#8220;regret it later&#8221; rhetoric to intimidate opposition families into submission.<br><br>Central forces provided a protective umbrella for BJP intimidation and booth capturing while the NIA targeted TMC workers.<br><br>Deployment of 100 armored anti-riot vehicles and high-tech monitoring proved that BJP sought conquest, not a mandate.<br><br>When millions of boots and voter purges filtered the public choice, the result will be a forced outcome dictated by Modi and his Sena. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad:The Indian government has deployed substantial numbers of forces to West Bengal, which the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) describes as a &#8220;war on Bengal&#8221; and a &#8220;military occupation&#8221; aimed at defeating Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s government.According to Kashmir Media Service, the largest deployment in history during elections has created a permanent war-zone surveillance India rather than &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2026\/04\/india.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199336,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199335\/revisions\/199336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}