12 resultsfor “West Bengal election challenges for BJP”
BJP walking the trails of religious polarisation and leveraging underlying anti-incumbency to win, experts told Al Jazeera.  Chief Minister of West Bengal and Chairperson of All India Trinamool Congress, Mamata
West Bengal and leader of the All India Trinamool Congress, participates in a roadshow from on 18 April. Right: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists march during an election road show in Kolkata. ![Bharatiya Janata Party
West Bengal, based on counting trends on the Election Commission website on Monday. Elections in five states and territories took place in April and May with the BJP seeking to make inroads into opposition-held
elected in the eastern state of Assam, giving the party power in 20 out of 28 states. The result followed a highly controversial exercise by the BJP government to revise West Bengal’s electoral roll
BJP’s win in West Bengal was seen as a significant political coup for the Hindu nationalist party, securing its control over the east of the country and ensuring it now governed more than
West Bengal shows that Muslims have been disproportionately affected by the SIR exercise, mainly in districts where they constitute a high percentage of the population and could sway the election, including Murshidabad with
West Bengal are expected to vote for their candidate of choice on April 23 and 29, to elect 294 lawmakers to the state assembly. The results will be declared on May 4 in the crucial
BJP) in 2018. Kerala followed a different trajectory. Since 1957 - when the state voted for one of the world's first elected communist governments under EMS Namboodiripad - power has alternated between the Left
West Bengal is expected to boost Modi's standing and strengthen his position midway through his third term in office. The 2024 national election forced his ruling party to rely on regional allies to form
West Bengal, ending the TMC's 15-year rule amid a potent mix of anti-incumbency, religious polarisation and controversy surrounding the electoral rolls. Yet Banerjee's party was hardly annihilated. It still
West Bengal's electorate is larger than Germany's, turning its election into something closer to a nation choosing a government than a routine Indian state poll. Monday's BJP victory there would rank among
BJP won. In Kerala, the LDF and the UDF have swapped power for decades: Before the latest election, the left was in power since 2016. Even in India’s parliamentary elections, the left has seen