{"id":9581,"date":"2026-04-28T02:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/west-bengal-polls-shah-urges-people-to-vote-fearlessly-says-central-forces-will-stay-back-for-60-days-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T02:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:40:23","slug":"west-bengal-polls-shah-urges-people-to-vote-fearlessly-says-central-forces-will-stay-back-for-60-days-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/west-bengal-polls-shah-urges-people-to-vote-fearlessly-says-central-forces-will-stay-back-for-60-days-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal polls: Shah urges people to vote fearlessly, says central forces will stay back for 60 days | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130564222,imgsize-101064,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/wb-polls-bjp-roadshow.jpg\" alt=\"West Bengal polls: Shah urges people to vote fearlessly, says central forces will stay back for 60 days\" title=\"Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates Indranil Khan (Behala Paschim) and Shankar Sikdar (Behala Purba) for West Bengal Assembly elections, at Behala in Kolkata. (PTI Photo\/Manvender Vashist Lav)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates Indranil Khan (Behala Paschim) and Shankar Sikdar (Behala Purba) for West Bengal Assembly elections, at Behala in Kolkata. (PTI Photo\/Manvender Vashist Lav)\">Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates Indranil Khan (Behala Paschim) and Shankar Sikdar (Behala Purba) for West Bengal Assembly elections, at Behala in Kolkata. (PTI Photo\/Manvender Vashist Lav)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Union home minister <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/amit-shah\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Amit Shah<\/a> wound up his poll campaign in Bengal on Monday by asking people to vote fearlessly without worrying about the &#8220;goons&#8221; of CM <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mamata-banerjee\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mamata Banerjee<\/a>, as central armed police forces (CAPFs) have been deployed everywhere and will remain stationed in the state for 60 days after elections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry about Didi&#8217;s goons. The Election Commission has deployed CAPFs in every nook and cranny. Today, as I leave, I am saying a BJP govt will come to office after elections. Still, CAPFs will stay here for the next 60 days,&#8221; he said while addressing a roadshow in Kolkata&#8217;s Behala, in a message of reassurance to his party&#8217;s supporters in a state marred by incidents of post-poll violence in the past.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/>At Chandannagar, he sharpened his pitch, saying: &#8220;There are apprehensions that there will be violence. <!-- -->Don&#8217;t worry&#8230; I am asking Didi&#8217;s goons not to step out of their homes. Otherwise, we will straighten them up after May 4.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>BJP has repeatedly accused TMC of orchestrating violent attacks on its workers after previous elections.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>The deployment of nearly 2,400 CAPF companies, unprecedented in the state&#8217;s electoral history, is being seen as a determined attempt to scuttle any &#8216;strong-arm tactics&#8217; of TMC, which, in turn, has alleged that it is aimed at intimidating its supporters to help BJP.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"17\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/west-bengal-polls-shah-urges-people-to-vote-fearlessly-says-central-forces-will-stay-back-for-60-days\/articleshow\/130564223.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a roadshow in support of BJP candidates Indranil Khan (Behala Paschim) and Shankar Sikdar (Behala Purba) for West Bengal Assembly elections, at Behala in Kolkata. (PTI Photo\/Manvender Vashist Lav) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah wound up his poll campaign in Bengal on Monday by asking people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-country"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}