Overview

• Union minister Bhupendra Yadav and MP Biplab Kumar Deb arrived in Kolkata as BJP election observers and held strategy meetings with state leaders at the party’s Salt Lake office.
• Party insiders said Sunil Bansal and Amit Malviya joined the huddle, which reviewed granular district arithmetic and signaled organisational reshuffles based on poll gains and losses.
• BJP leaders stressed effective implementation of the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls beginning after the Puja break, with some sources indicating discussions may include early deployment of central forces.
• The Trinamool Congress launches statewide Bijoya Sammelani gatherings from October 5, with roughly 50 designated speakers per block to engage voters and prepare cadres.
• Abhishek Banerjee leveraged Puja outreach and Mamata Banerjee will preside over the October 5 Red Road carnival as the ruling party converts festival visibility into grassroots mobilisation.