Overview
- With results showing the NDA near 200 of 243 seats in Bihar and the BJP as the single largest party, leaders cast the outcome as a springboard for 2026 in West Bengal.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a Delhi victory rally the BJP would “uproot jungle raj” in Bengal, as the party pushed the message “Next West Bengal” and celebrated in its Kolkata offices.
- BJP functionaries in Bengal highlighted the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision and promised removal of allegedly illegal voters, while Giriraj Singh urged a ‘flush out’ of Bangladeshi and Rohingya migrants.
- TMC leaders dismissed any carryover from Bihar, with spokesperson Kunal Ghosh saying Bengal’s dynamics are different, predicting 250-plus seats for Mamata Banerjee, and accusing opponents of plotting SIR-linked conspiracies.
- Opposition voices outside Bengal, including SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress’s Pawan Khera, questioned the Bihar process and the EC’s conduct, even as the Mahagathbandhan lagged far behind expectations.