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THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2025
BJP ahead of Trinamool in West Bengal, predict exit polls

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TBS Report
01 June, 2024, 09:35 pm
Last modified: 01 June, 2024, 09:47 pm

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BJP ahead of Trinamool in West Bengal, predict exit polls

The BJP had made a major push in the state, dusting itself off after the huge defeat in the Assembly elections in 2021

TBS Report
01 June, 2024, 09:35 pm
Last modified: 01 June, 2024, 09:47 pm
Mamata Banerjee (L) and Narendra Modi. Photo: Collected
Mamata Banerjee (L) and Narendra Modi. Photo: Collected

The BJP's astounding performance in India's West Bengal in 2019, when it won 18 of the state's 42 seats was not an outlier and the party is set to do even better this time, exit polls have predicted. 

In what will be an even bigger setback for the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state, at least four exit polls have said that the BJP will now be the single-largest party in Bengal in terms of Lok Sabha seats, reports NDTV. 

The Trinamool had won 22 constituencies last time. 

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Exit polls also often get it wrong.

The poll by Jan Ki Baat has predicted between 21 and 26 seats for the BJP and 16-18 for the Trinamool Congress.

The numbers for India News-D-Dynamics are 21 for the BJP and 19 for the Trinamool while Republic Bharat-Matrize has given the BJP between 21 and 25 seats, predicting that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party will be reduced to between 16 and 20.

A poll by R Bangla has predicted a reversal of 2019, giving the BJP 22 seats and the Trinamool 18.

All four polls agree that the Congress will, at best, equal its performance in 2019, when it won two seats. While Jan Ki Baat has predicted 0-2 constituencies for the party, the figure given by India News-D-Dynamics is 2 and Republic Bharat-Matrize has predicted between 0 and 1. The R Bangla poll says the party will fail to open its account in the state.

While it is too early to say what worked in the BJP's favour, the party had made a major push in the state, dusting itself off after the huge defeat in the Assembly elections in 2021. It had also seen defections after winning only 77 of the 294 Assembly seats after setting itself a target of at least 200.

In its renewed push since then, the BJP has highlighted alleged corruption by the Trinamool Congress and has also accused the party and Mamata Banerjee of appeasing Muslims. 

It was also a major issue earlier this year when some women in Sandeshkhali, a village near the Bangladesh border, accused a Trinamool strongman, Sheikh Shahjahan, and two of his aides of sexually assaulting them.

While the Trinamool denied the charges, saying there were "some issues" only of land grabbing, the BJP managed to make it a major election issue. 

If the exit polls are to be believed, even the videos showing a local BJP leader saying that the women were paid to make the sexual assault allegations did not dent the damage done to Banerjee's party by the allegations.

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