Anonymousabout 21 hours ago
The BJP won over 200 of 294 seats in West Bengal's 2026 assembly elections, ending 15 years of Trinamool Congress rule and capturing the state for the first time in the party's history. The victory — built on Hindu vote consolidation, anti-incumbency against TMC corruption, a controversial voter roll purge that removed 9 million names, and a record deployment of 2,400 paramilitary companies — gives the BJP control of 22 of India's 36 states and union territories and raises fundamental questions about the future of federalism and minority representation in India's third-most-populous state.