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Islamo-Leftist Alleged ‘Fact-Checker’ Zubair Claims BJP’s 97% Vote Share In Muslim-Majority Booth Is “Impossible”; He Won’t Tell You Booth 164 Had Backed BJP For Years

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Islamo-Leftist Alleged ‘Fact-Checker’ Zubair Claims BJP's 97% Vote Share In Muslim-Majority Booth Is "Impossible"; He Won't Tell You Booth 164 Had Backed BJP For Years

Alt News co-founder and alleged fact-checker Mohammed Zubair amplified claims that the 2026 result from Booth 164 in Rajarhat New Town was so unusual that it warranted suspicion. The problem? The booth had already been voting BJP for years.

The viral narrative was built around a simple premise: a Muslim-majority booth could not have produced such an overwhelming BJP victory. Residents were quoted expressing disbelief, opposition leaders questioned the outcome, and the result was portrayed as an electoral anomaly.

But official Form 20 records tell a different story.

What Zubair Claimed

On 10 June 2026, Zubair shared an article claiming that a booth with an estimated 88% Muslim electorate had delivered 97% of its votes to the BJP, helping the party win the Rajarhat New Town Assembly seat.

The article relied heavily on statements from local residents, opposition workers and political activists who expressed disbelief over the result and repeatedly asked, “Where did our votes go?”

The report also highlighted that neighbouring Booth 165 produced very different results and suggested that Booth 164’s outcome was incompatible with the area’s demographic profile.

The implication was clear: the result was so extraordinary that it warranted suspicion.

Yet the report paid little attention to a critical question: What did Booth 164 do in previous elections?

Because if the BJP had already been consistently winning the booth, then the claim that the 2026 result represents some unprecedented political anomaly becomes far more difficult to sustain.

What The Official Form 20 Data Shows

The available Form 20 records indicate that Booth 164 has displayed a pro-BJP voting pattern for years.

2021 West Bengal Assembly Election

Official Form 20 data for the Rajarhat New Town Assembly constituency shows the following result at Booth 164:

  • BJP candidate Bhaskar Roy – 284 votes
  • TMC candidate Tapas Chatterjee – 159 votes
  • Left candidate Saptarshi Deb – 116 votes

The BJP comfortably topped the booth.

Even Booth 164A, carved out from the same area, showed BJP leading with 199 votes.

This alone challenges the suggestion that Booth 164 was historically a Left-TMC stronghold.

2024 Lok Sabha Election

The trend continued in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

At Booth 164:

  • BJP candidate Swapan Majumdar – 449 votes
  • TMC candidate Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar – 336 votes
  • Left-ISF candidate Tapas Banerjee – 1 vote

Once again, the BJP emerged as the leading party.

Notably, the Left-ISF alliance polled just one vote in the booth even in 2024, a detail that mirrors the much-discussed one-vote tally recorded by the Left candidate in 2026.

2026 Assembly Election

The controversial 2026 result recorded:

  • BJP candidate Piyush Kanodia – 637 votes
  • TMC candidate Tapas Chatterjee – 5 votes
  • Left candidate Saptarshi Deb – 1 vote

The scale of BJP’s victory was undoubtedly dramatic. However, dramatic is not the same as unprecedented.

The booth had already voted BJP in earlier elections.

Four Elections, Same Pattern

Available election data points to a remarkably consistent pattern:

  • 2019 Lok Sabha Election: BJP led Booth 164.
  • 2021 Assembly Election: BJP won Booth 164.
  • 2024 Lok Sabha Election: BJP won Booth 164.
  • 2026 Assembly Election: BJP won Booth 164.

In other words, the BJP’s victory at Booth 164 was not a first-time occurrence. It was the fourth consecutive election in which the party reportedly emerged ahead at the booth.

That context is essential because much of the outrage surrounding the result has been built on the assumption that a BJP victory there was inherently implausible.

The historical record suggests otherwise.

The Missing Context

The most striking omission in the viral discussion is that readers were led to believe Booth 164 suddenly transformed into a BJP bastion in 2026.

The official election data tells a different story.

Booth 164 had already delivered victories to BJP candidates in successive elections before 2026. While the size of the BJP’s margin this time may have attracted attention, the direction of the result did not emerge out of nowhere.

Any serious examination of the Rajarhat New Town controversy must therefore begin with the full electoral history of the booth, not selective snapshots that reinforce a predetermined narrative.

Without that context, claims of an “impossible result” risk becoming less a fact-check and more an exercise in narrative-building.

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