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Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari connected Wednesday (March 25, 2026) claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party would triumph 177 of the 294 seats successful the West Bengal Assembly polls.
The BJP person said if radical were allowed to vote, “the BJP volition triumph thing abbreviated of 177 seats”. This is the archetypal clip that a BJP person successful West Bengal has enactment up a fig connected however galore seats the BJP volition triumph successful the Assembly polls.
There are 294 seats successful the Assembly and the magic fig for securing a bulk is 148 seats. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, portion announcing candidates for the polls, had said her enactment would triumph astatine slightest 226 seats. In the 2021 Assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress had won 215 seats and the BJP was reduced to 77 seats.
The BJP leadership, peculiarly Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had raised the slogan of ‘200 paar ( More than 200)” during the 2021 polls. However, successful this election, the BJP enactment was not putting immoderate figures till Mr. Adhikari capped the enactment chances to 177. The TMC won 215 seats with a 48.59% ballot stock and the BJP 77 seats with 38% votes.
There are astir 80 to 90 Assembly seats successful West Bengal wherever the colonisation of Muslim electorate is much than 50% and the BJP has small chances of winning these seats. Also successful southbound Bengal’s Presidency area, which comprises Kolkata and adjoining districts, the BJP has ne'er been capable to marque an impact.
Addressing a nationalist gathering successful northbound Bengal, Ms. Banerjee said that aft the elections, BJP supporters would person to enactment up posters and accidental that they had thing to bash with the party.
