West Bengal has spoken: voters have handed BJP a decisive victory, expanding its hold over eastern India. India is now a Hindutva country: over 70% of its land area, covering 21 states, and almost 80% of its population are now governed, at the state level, by BJP-led NDA. What was once the bastion of secular political parties—communists for 34 years and then TMC for 15 years—Bengal is now a BJP territory.
The party’s victory in Bengal is a setback for competitive democracy in India and narrows the space for political contestation. It reinforces BJP’s growing structural dominance over the Indian polity, giving it a stronger, more consolidated base as it advances toward the 2029 general elections.
