West Bengal 2025: SIR, identity politics, B’desh unrest and road to Assembly polls next year

KOLKATA: (Dec 31) As West Bengal edged closer to the assembly polls due next year, 2025 unfolded as a year in which the mechanics of voting, border anxieties and sharpening communal lines eclipsed governance, turning the SIR of electoral rolls and cross-border unrest into the state’s defining political battlegrounds.

If the Lok Sabha elections verdict of 2024 fixed the poll arithmetic, the politics of 2025 fixed the mood.