Kolkata, May 24: The Bhartiya Janata Party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made stupendous inroads into West Bengal with a record breaking majority. This election comes as a bad scare to Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, The BJP has completely replaced the Communist Party CPI(M) as the main opposition in the state.
Reportedly, the exit polls predicted that the BJP will win 19-23 seats which is more or less true now. The party's Look East policy for this election was based on its concerns over the Hindi heartland states after the fiasco in the assembly polls.
Elections were held in 42 parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal. While the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has won in 22 seats, the BJP stunned them in 18 seats and Congress takes hold of two seats in the state. Meanwhile, CPI(M) did not get a single seat this time. This has happened for the first time since the foundation of the party in Bengal in 1964.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party managed to hold on to its ground in and around Kolkata and a major chunk of the south Bengal. TMC won only by three seats from BJP. For the very first time, the state saw this kind of equal contest and result. Historically, the two major parties of Bengal were CPI(M) and TMC. This result shows that both the parties are losing ground in Bengal somehow.
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