Overview
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi signalled the push with his "Ganga flows from Bihar to Bengal" line, casting the Bihar win as momentum for taking on the TMC.
- The Indian Express reports a 10-point campaign focused on law and order, corruption, illegal immigration, national security and alleged subversion of democracy, with Bhupender Yadav holding weekly review meetings in Kolkata.
- BJP organisers say workers at roughly 80,000 booths have been assigned tasks, helpdesks are guiding voters through the Special Intensive Revision of rolls, and the party will avoid last‑minute defectors and not project a chief ministerial face.
- SIR-linked enforcement has become a political flashpoint, with recent reports of 94 arrests near Basirhat, about 500 detentions at Hakimpur in mid-November, and BSF data citing 2,688 pushbacks in Bengal since 2023.
- Analysts highlight steep arithmetic against the BJP given the TMC’s entrenched booth network, a consolidated Muslim electorate influencing about 100 seats, and the pull of Lakshmi Bhandar welfare payments.