Elections in KL, Tn, Assam And WB, Q1/Q2 2026

[kepler37b]

 

 

Democracy is a **** show. It is frustrating that these clowns have same voting rights as us.

 

[Lone Wolf]

9 hours ago, straighttalk said:

Hindk culture is not welcome in South and Bengal and some other states

Watched a Hindi news channel the other day, the reporter was asking people questions in Hindi to Bengali people and they were fine understanding/speaking Hindi...

So what exactly is the problem?

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, G_B_ said:

He just switched the numbers around this time . Lol

[ravishingravi]

This does feel like curing a patient from an auto immune condition. Body is resisting a lethal virus that has latched. End of virus could kill the patient too. Don't see any easy way out. Whatever be the result. 

[coffee_rules]

10 hours ago, straighttalk said:

Lmao vande matatam was coined by a Bengali writer..no one hates Bharat mata ki jai..but non Hindi people don't like imposition of an alien language..that's all .Hindk culture is not welcome in South and Bengal and some other states.

Listen to your own hypocrisy, what is Hindi culture? VM and BMKJ  he respected all over india except by a few Bengali, who are secular and are sensitive about hurting Muslim friends. Rest of india has no qualms about Jana Gana Mana  which is in Bengali.  There is nothing exclusive about Bengali culture or any other regional culture in India, there is no supremacy compared to Hindi or any other languages. This is why a lot of Indians hate a few Bengali with their Faux  pride just like a few  Dravidians  feel false, supremacist pride  about their language. Nobody can dominate any culture in India. This is the fear mongering that you guys are doing to keep nationalistic feeling out of the state.
 

 

 

10 hours ago, straighttalk said:

Wait since when is cow belt a colonial term ..derogatory depends on  your  perception...cow is revered holy according to Hindu culture... I dunno what is derogatory about it ..it's just aliens to Bengal..like bengalis are fish and meat lovers, are more liberal , secular. And value women more...topics that are alien to current BJP..so they are not welcome in bengal inspite of the gross mismanagement of trinamul. If BJP had local Bengali leaders .then they would have won much earlier. Maybe they will win just because people are fed up with mamata. But if they lose...it's not because of mamata but rejection of their communal idealogy.

 

You are again confusing Bengali culture with Hindu culture. Make up your mind. Kazi nazrul Islam is as Bengali as tagore. Bringing Islamic culture might be anti thesis to Hindus but not to Bengali. So be clear say tmc is patronizing Islam and that is against Hindu..but saying it's against Bengali culture is factually incorrect. So once you are clear that you think tmc is anti Hindu and not anti Bengali then you perhaps have a better point. Well to bjp..having Muslim candidate is enough for them to be fearful that a handful of peaceful can destroy the majority Hindus in this country...that's the poison and fear mongering I am calling out ..if BJP stuck to ani terrorism and anti illegal immigration..no one would have a problem ..but when there is 0 development..making the idiots jumps into kill Mollah allows them to win elections. So be it 

 

Cow belt refers to a  region where the cattle population is more than the rest of the country, just like the Bible belt. Bible belt is referred to in a negative way to mock at people who are religious conservative evangelist. The same way cow belt  is referred to derogatively indicating a conservative religious culture with the north south divide. There’s nothing that you said about cow belt is sacred. So stop being naïve about it. 
 

In the last three elections, BJP has increased its vote  share in Bengal and influences increasing. No matter how much you fear about Hindi culture taking  over Bengali’s, people are welcoming the growing Hindu influences in Bengal. JSR Slogan is pretty popular. That is what the secular people are fearing that the Hindu culture and impact is increasing in Bengal after a few hundred years of biased liberal secular hegemony.

 

No matter how much you think about kaaba Namaz in Durga festivities, there is no reciprocity of the same by Muslims of Bengal. Heck, they don’t even see the Bengali language Pride and I have not seen many  speak Bengali, Urdu is more popular among Muslims in Bengal, just like in Bangladesh.
 

The other reason that BJP is gaining popularity in Bengal is mainly because of the fear of WB becoming like Bangladesh with large scale genocide of Hindus going on there . Regularly, Durga  processions  and Shobha yatras are being attacked by Muslim mobs. Mamata telling Bengalis to not celebrate festivities in Muslim areas, as if it is Pakistan exclusively.

 

The growing influence of radical Islam in West Bengal is because of the liberal minded bhadraloks singing kaaba Medina songs, while Muslim mobs attack Hindu processions. This is also the reason why Bengal got partitioned into Hindu and Muslim areas bu Jinnah. And still there is a growing influence of radical Islam in West Bengal. There is no such issue in the Punjab region of India because in 1947  Punjabiis chased out all the Muslims into West Punjab, while West Bengal didn’t do that. The inherent Secular  Culture you talk about is mainly having no will  to fight back. Even now Bangladeshis are pouring over across the border and are being protected by liberal secularBengali in India. They are even migrating across India to all cities. Being a border state, rest of India cannot afford a faux secular liberal culture of Bengal, which is detrimental to national security. If not this election, at least the next election will have a different government than TMC.

[straighttalk]

13 hours ago, Mariyam said:

This arguement is interesting.

 

What do you mean by ‘Hindi culture’ exactly?

 

Given that Bengal and the Hindi heartlands border each other, there has been cultural and linguistic exchange for millenia. Can we so readily distinguish between the two cultures? 

There is because it's alien to bengalis and south Indians and maybe even Oriyas. Language is an emotional issue. That is the reason Mamata is able to hold on to power  even though her administration is useless ..bengalis are fiercely proud of their culture and obnoxiously look down upon Hindi culture as more uncouth...not saying it's justified but explaining how the average bhadralok things...they associate Hindi with bimaru states. Crass songs, Bollywood crap, wealth and show off, communalism (new) as well as a patriarchal society...this lack of understanding and fear is magnified when BJP brings in people like yogi adityanath Amit shah etc and have a track record of trying to impose Hindi...add in vegetarianism etc..they go against the pluralism espoused by people like tagore Vivekananda and others. Lot of you will be surprised to hear that Swami Vivekananda actually had beef. BJP would be much better served building local leaders not just tmc turncoats. They will be lot more welcome. 

[straighttalk]

2 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Listen to your own hypocrisy, what is Hindi culture? VM and BMKJ  he respected all over india except by a few Bengali, who are secular and are sensitive about hurting Muslim friends. Rest of india has no qualms about Jana Gana Mana  which is in Bengali.  There is nothing exclusive about Bengali culture or any other regional culture in India, there is no supremacy compared to Hindi or any other languages. This is why a lot of Indians hate a few Bengali with their Faux  pride just like a few  Dravidians  feel false, supremacist pride  about their language. Nobody can dominate any culture in India. This is the fear mongering that you guys are doing to keep nationalistic feeling out of the state.
 

 

 

 

Cow belt refers to a  region where the cattle population is more than the rest of the country, just like the Bible belt. Bible belt is referred to in a negative way to mock at people who are religious conservative evangelist. The same way cow belt  is referred to derogatively indicating a conservative religious culture with the north south divide. There’s nothing that you said about cow belt is sacred. So stop being naïve about it. 
 

In the last three elections, BJP has increased its vote  share in Bengal and influences increasing. No matter how much you fear about Hindi culture taking  over Bengali’s, people are welcoming the growing Hindu influences in Bengal. JSR Slogan is pretty popular. That is what the secular people are fearing that the Hindu culture and impact is increasing in Bengal after a few hundred years of biased liberal secular hegemony.

 

No matter how much you think about kaaba Namaz in Durga festivities, there is no reciprocity of the same by Muslims of Bengal. Heck, they don’t even see the Bengali language Pride and I have not seen many  speak Bengali, Urdu is more popular among Muslims in Bengal, just like in Bangladesh.
 

The other reason that BJP is gaining popularity in Bengal is mainly because of the fear of WB becoming like Bangladesh with large scale genocide of Hindus going on there . Regularly, Durga  processions  and Shobha yatras are being attacked by Muslim mobs. Mamata telling Bengalis to not celebrate festivities in Muslim areas, as if it is Pakistan exclusively.

 

The growing influence of radical Islam in West Bengal is because of the liberal minded bhadraloks singing kaaba Medina songs, while Muslim mobs attack Hindu processions. This is also the reason why Bengal got partitioned into Hindu and Muslim areas bu Jinnah. And still there is a growing influence of radical Islam in West Bengal. There is no such issue in the Punjab region of India because in 1947  Punjabiis chased out all the Muslims into West Punjab, while West Bengal didn’t do that. The inherent Secular  Culture you talk about is mainly having no will  to fight back. Even now Bangladeshis are pouring over across the border and are being protected by liberal secularBengali in India. They are even migrating across India to all cities. Being a border state, rest of India cannot afford a faux secular liberal culture of Bengal, which is detrimental to national security. If not this election, at least the next election will have a different government than TMC.

No Bengali says jai shri ram..it's alien. Lord rama is worshipped...but jai shri ram is a BJP or Hindi slogan..not  a Bengali slogan. Durga Lakshmi kali ma shiv dev and saraswati are the more popular deities in bengal. There are many Krishna and narayana temples but hardly rama temples in bengal. That doesn't mean he is not worhsipped..just not as much as say in Up or how Ganesha is worshipped. Jn Maharashtra

BJP supporters can shout...it's a free country..people can say jai shri ram or allah hu akbar with equal right but neither is a common refrain among Bengali Hindus. If you knew anything about Bengali culture or Bengali Hindus..you would know that Shri Chaitnya and Hare Krishna Hare Rama are more popular here.  Anyhow... Hinudism growing in bengal is not an issue...communalism ..hatred and the Hindi culture ingress from guajrat and up is the issue.

Edited May 1 by straighttalk

[coffee_rules]

1 hour ago, straighttalk said:

No Bengali says jai shri ram..it's alien. Lord rama is worshipped...but jai shri ram is a BJP or Hindi slogan..not  a Bengali slogan. Durga Lakshmi kali ma shiv dev and saraswati are the more popular deities in bengal. There are many Krishna and narayana temples but hardly rama temples in bengal. That doesn't mean he is not worhsipped..just not as much as say in Up or how Ganesha is worshipped. Jn Maharashtra

BJP supporters can shout...it's a free country..people can say jai shri ram or allah hu akbar with equal right but neither is a common refrain among Bengali Hindus. If you knew anything about Bengali culture or Bengali Hindus..you would know that Shri Chaitnya and Hare Krishna Hare Rama are more popular here.  Anyhow... Hinudism growing in bengal is not an issue...communalism ..hatred and the Hindi culture ingress from guajrat and up is the issue.

Joi Bangladesh!! 

[straighttalk]

2 hours ago, coffee_rules said:

Joi Bangladesh!! 

You prove my point ...andhbhakts like you think criticizing feku automatically means you are Bangladeshi or Pakistan..no wonder our country is a laughing stock all over the world...just abused for our large market ..with a crumbling infra and pollution and corruption...but as long as we can kill some Mollahs...we can chant jai shri ram and be happy.

[coffee_rules]

9 minutes ago, straighttalk said:

You prove my point ...andhbhakts like you think criticizing feku automatically means you are Bangladeshi or Pakistan..no wonder our country is a laughing stock all over the world...just abused for our large market ..with a crumbling infra and pollution and corruption...but as long as we can kill some Mollahs...we can chant jai shri ram and be happy.

Chor ki daadi mein tinka! I think you like your world about feku, Hindi culture, andhbhakth and false pride. You have very low IQ to have any intelligent argument. Most of the Bengalis I know speak in Hindi and so do I see in all interviews of ordinary people during the election interviews.

[straighttalk]

18 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

Chor ki daadi mein tinka! I think you like your world about feku, Hindi culture, andhbhakth and false pride. You have very low IQ to have any intelligent argument. Most of the Bengalis I know speak in Hindi and so do I see in all interviews of ordinary people during the election interviews.

Jai shri ram...you know nothing about Bengal and neither does modi shah duo. If they knew they would have outsted mamata 3 elections back. They might be successful this time but that requires sir shenanigans and ec malpractices along with having a corrupt tmc.

Edited May 1 by straighttalk

[coffee_rules]

9 hours ago, ravishingravi said:

This does feel like curing a patient from an auto immune condition. Body is resisting a lethal virus that has latched. End of virus could kill the patient too. Don't see any easy way out. Whatever be the result. 

Yes, the patient dies, but the disease won’t spread across the society, hopefully

[diga]

Argument meanders from muslims to Bengali culture.... One can understand the mullah playbook in politics from the above.No use of convincing him.

[coffee_rules]

20 hours ago, jf1gp_1 said:

Writing is on the wall ??  TMC has already started evm tampering, vote chori nonsense. 

Her body language is pretty telling. She is threatening to get 10,000 people on the streets on May 4 before counting. Anarchy rules.

[coffee_rules]

On 4/30/2026 at 2:24 AM, randomGuy said:

2 questions 

1. What is it that vijay has that so called pm material Annamalai doesn't?

 

 

AnnaMalai  is too  educated and polished to succeed  TN Dravidian politics. He was more popular in Karnataka than in Tamil Nadu when he started. He should have come up in ranks in Karnataka and then moved , probably. He could not garner votes. Vijay on the other hand, comes from cinema and has a very strong fan base. We really have to  wait till May 4.  Movie stars definitely can win  elections more than politicians. There are many examples in the north like Amitabh Bachchan winning his first election against a seasoned politician like Bahuguna in 1985. Hema Malini Dharmender, Vinod  Khanna  are all the same.

 

On 4/30/2026 at 2:24 AM, randomGuy said:

 

 

2. Is it that people of TN are anti bjp due to being averse to hindi so much that they will choose a newcomer to giving bjp ever a chance?

@ravishingravi @Gollum

with the initial popularity of  AM, BJP thought they could go on their own without any party help. It looks like they don’t have the patience with AM and wants to piggyback ADMK for a few more years or cycles of elections. AM went against both DMK and also ADMK politicians which they didn’t like, and he  didn’t bring any returns as well. So it looks like BJP lost patients with him.  
 

It is hard for any party to break in into the dravidian ecosystem of TN. National issues don’t ring popular there. BJP model in Karnataka was better with local politicians winning elections on their own. From the 90s till 2008, they increased  their vote share every election. Even in Karnataka, they had to piggyback with JDS initially to get some semblance of power. It looks like BJP wants to try the Karnataka model TN. as well.

[ravishingravi]

 

[coffee_rules]

On 4/30/2026 at 2:43 PM, G_B_ said:

The Enigmous (twitter handle) has

 

Tmc 220 bjp 71

 

Has called last two elections correctly. Not a pollster but somebody with intricate knowledge of state. But with tmc bias. Has been parroting tmc line long before elections.

 

News 18 has bjp win. It does seem to be national pollsters have bjp easily. Local pollsters seem to skew towards tmc.

 

Anybody know what local pollsters are thinking?

 

 

Tushar is not a local poster, but BJP sympathizer. The way he analyzed each assembly seat is pretty unique. Listen to the first 15 minutes, it looks pretty bleak for BJP. I think the exit polls that are protecting 200+ for BJP have over sold the results. Be prepared for a repeat of 2021.

 

[randomGuy]

@coffee_rules think of it, they are willing to give a chance to new party but not to national party trying hard from quite some time...If each state just wants regional parties and no national party, will it strengthen or weaken national unity, cohesion and power? And what kind of people mentality does it show? You mentioned "National issues don’t ring popular there". I view it as deliberate thing due to strong dislike of hindi that nothing else matters.

 

Edited May 2 by randomGuy

[coffee_rules]

59 minutes ago, ravishingravi said:

 

My fav program since last 3 months, watch it daily. Fack this 30% impasse is impossible to defeat , any party needs 100% of Hindu vote to defeat this juggernaut 

Edited May 2 by coffee_rules

[ravishingravi]

40 minutes ago, coffee_rules said:

My fav program since last 3 months, watch it daily. Fack this 30% impasse is impossible to defeat , any party needs 100% of Hindu vote to defeat this juggernaut 

 

But that's the point Pradeep makes. It's first past poll. It's not 30% divided equally across constituencies. It could be 70% one place. 10% in another.