West Bengal election results: How the BJP won West Bengal

The BJP’s archetypal solo triumph successful West Bengal was not the creaseless progression of 1 triumph aft another, but it has been decades successful the making. From tapping Mamata Banerjee’s recently launched enactment Trinamool Congress arsenic an NDA state astatine the Centre during the Vajpayee epoch to being the lone enactment with the firepower to halt Ms. Banerjee’s bid for a 4th word successful the State, it has been a agelong slog.

The peaks of the BJP’s tally of 18 seats successful the 2019 Lok Sabha predetermination were followed by the troughs of a nonaccomplishment successful the 2021 Assembly polls and a depleted tally of parliamentary seats successful 2024. Therefore, for the 2026 Assembly polls, the organisational readying and messaging had to beryllium conscionable right.