Shut Contests, Massive Stakes: BJP Plans Bengal Comeback In 70 Tight Races
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These 70 seats fall below completely different Lok Sabha constituencies the place the social gathering trailed by no more than 15,000 votes, in line with the 2024 Lok Sabha outcomes
The understanding is that these seats, or most of them, can swing the BJP’s means if the social gathering places the proper effort. (PTI)
With the meeting election barely seven to eight months away in West Bengal, the BJP has agreed on a technique based mostly on which it can launch its preliminary groundwork to emerge victorious within the state.
The social gathering has zeroed in on 70 essential seats that it should win whether it is critical about ousting Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) from the state in 2026, BJP sources instructed News18.
These 70 seats fall below completely different Lok Sabha constituencies the place the social gathering trailed by no more than 15,000 votes, in line with the 2024 Lok Sabha outcomes. The understanding is that these seats, or most of them, can swing the BJP’s means if the social gathering places the proper effort.
In 49 out of 70 seats, BJP trailed by lower than 10,000 votes. These embrace constituencies like Naba Dwip, Nakashipara, Sonarpur South, Barrackpore, Dum Dum North, Jagatdal, Rajarhat-Gopalpur, Barasat, Asansol North, and Kolkata-based seats like Rashbehari, Bhabanipur, Kashipur-Belgachia, Maniktala and others.
Within the remaining 21 seats, the BJP was behind by 10,000-15,000 votes. The checklist contains constituencies comparable to Hingalganj, Basirhat South, Howrah North, Shibpur, Kalna, Katwa, Suri, Kolkata’s Chowringhee amongst others.
Based on sources, in a lately held closed-door technique assembly, BJP leaders agreed that if campaigning begins with rapid impact and all sales space committees are made purposeful in these 70 seats, the social gathering has an actual likelihood to reap the advantages of anti-incumbency.
“Although there are 92 meeting seats the place we now have knowledge that exhibits BJP was forward of its nearest rival political social gathering within the 2024 Lok Sabha election, many of those seats are historically BJP’s strongholds. So, the first purpose is to not go for retaining the seats however to make sure the social gathering wins the 70 seats the place we had been marginally behind. That may change the sport,” mentioned a BJP state govt committee member.
Within the 2021 West Bengal meeting elections, the BJP gained 77 seats out of 294, whereas TMC secured a landslide majority with 213 seats.
Within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal, the BJP gained 12 out of the 42 parliamentary seats. This was a lower from the 18 seats it had secured within the 2019 common elections. The TMC gained 29.
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