BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya shared a cropped video of Trinamool Congress’ Sagardighi candidate Byron Biswas, claiming he admitted defeat in the ongoing West Bengal elections and named the other constituencies where TMC would lose.
BOOM found that Biswas was alleging foul play in the Jangipur EVM strong room and was responding to a reporter’s question about what he fears.
The Claim
Malviya shared the video along with amplifying another misleading claim, which alleged that Birbhum’s Anubrata Mondal said TMC would not get even 15–16 seats in the first phase of the state elections. BOOM had fact-checked the claim and found that Mondal’s remarks about opposition parties’ performance were edited to appear as if he referred to the TMC. Read here.
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What We Found: Video Is Cropped, Shared Out Of Context
Original Video Shows Byron Biswas Alleging Foul Play in Polls: We first ran a keyword search in Bengali to locate the TMC leader’s full speech and found a video uploaded on the TDN Bangla YouTube channel on April 25, 2026. The video shows Biswas alleging irregularities in the EVM strong room in Jangipur and responding to a reporter’s question about his concerns.
According to reports, the TMC leader reached Jangipur Polytechnic College on April 24, which was designated as a strong room for the Farakka, Shamsherganj, Suti, Raghunathganj, Jangipur and Sagardighi assembly constituencies. There, Biswas got into a verbal altercation with the central forces and police, alleging that CCTV cameras in the strong room were being deliberately switched off.
In the longer video, the TMC leader alleges foul play in the strong room monitoring system and says he was not satisfied with the authorities’ response attributing it to a “technical fault.”
Byron while addressing the press says how there was no LCD screen outside the gates of the polling station. He then alleged that authorities did not take action and delayed installing the screen.
Biswas also accused that despite the screen being installed, the camera was switched off for more than 20 minutes.
A reporter then goes on to ask what he fears about the situation, to which Biswas replies, "I am saying again, I am losing in my constituency. Zakir Saheb is losing in Jangipur. Nur Alam is losing in Shamsherganj. Our Amirul is losing in Farakka. I cannot speak about the whole state. Our Camac Street (a TMC base office) knows the situation of the state, and the central forces know it very well. Greetings, brother, greetings. If I am wrong, please forgive me."
The TMC Sagardighi candidate then names opposition parties and says he has no issue with them forming the government, as long as it happens fairly. Biswas also asserts that neither his party nor its leaders, including Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee, seek power through force.
Byron Biswas joined the TMC in 2023, just three months after winning the Sagardighi Assembly by-poll on a Congress ticket. The switch led to major political controversy, as he claimed the Congress played “no role in his victory” and credited his “individual popularity".
