2 yrs, and a ten% vote hole in West Bengal: how BJP didn’t see winds of change since ’19

Despite the BJP pulling out all the massive weapons and assets to contest the Assembly polls in West Bengal, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah extensively campaigning, the occasion struggled to cross double digits.
In reality, as per election outcomes and leads until 6 pm, the BJP’s vote share stood at 37.70%, a decline of practically 3% from its 40.30% votes in 2019. On the opposite hand, the TMC had elevated its vote share to 48.20% from 43.30% in 2019. In different phrases, a ten% vote hole stood between the 2 events.
In reality, as per the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP led in 121 Assembly seats within the state, a far cry from its 76 until final depend.
Observers and BJP insiders blamed a spread of things for the occasion’s disappointing present: the dearth of organisation on the sales space stage, fallacious collection of candidates, bringing in of TMC turncoats, not having a CM candidate to tackle Mamata Banerjee, an excessive amount of dependence on central leaders, consolidation of Muslim votes in direction of the TMC, and lack of correct suggestions.
“Maybe people did not accept candidates who came from other parties… We will analyse what went wrong. We tried our best to reach out to the people,” BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh stated.
A senior BJP chief stated, “We did win a lot of seats as a section of the people believed in us. We have established that it is the BJP vs the TMC in Bengal. But somehow Khela Hobe and Bengal’s daughter campaigns of the TMC were more acceptable than our Sonar Bangla approach and development promises.”
A majority of the BJP’s 46 candidates who joined from completely different events, together with 36 from the Trinamool, misplaced. After announcement of the candidate lists, the BJP had seen protests throughout the state, which had been an indication of issues to return that the occasion dismissed.
Party leaders stated the BJP additionally failed to understand that the Trinamool had gained among the floor misplaced by it by cracking down on corrupt occasion employees in areas like Jangalmahal and North Bengal. The frontal assaults on Mamata Banerjee could have additionally backfired.
True to her firebrand picture, Mamata led the TMC from the entrance, addressing over a 100 rallies, most of them along with her one leg in a forged.
The lack of native faces as compared, leaving your entire marketing campaign to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and J P Nadda, additionally seems to have been act of hubris. In districts like Howrah and Purba Medinipur, the BJP’s complete gameplan rested on TMC’s deserter stalwarts. But these didn’t ship, with the TMC profitable all 16 seats in Howrah.