Overview
- Polling concluded on Sunday, Nov. 1, across four studio floors in Kolkata with police deployment and CCTV in place and results expected the same evening.
- Veteran actors and BJP figures, including Mithun Chakraborty and Rudranil Ghosh, monitored the sites and publicly urged depoliticised industry governance.
- Reports conflict on the scale of the exercise, with multiple sources saying 16 guilds voted while another account put the total at 23 guilds and about 333 candidates; seven guilds were elected unopposed.
- Allegations surfaced that nearly 4,000 technicians were removed from the voters’ list and that candidates close to former federation chief Swarup Biswas remained in the contest, raising questions about the vote’s inclusiveness and legitimacy.
- The vote replaces prior informal methods with in‑person ballots under supervision; the federation controls work allocation and payments in Tollywood, so the new leadership will directly affect technicians’ access to jobs and pending dues.