US President Donald Trump has extended his congratulations to Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the BJP registered emphatic victory in the just concluded West Bengal Assembly elections, the White House said on Tuesday.
“The President congratulates Prime Minister Modi on this recent, historic, and decisive election victory,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said.
The BJP crossed the majority mark in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, winning 206 seats, according to the Election Commission of India. With polling in the Falta constituency countermanded, the effective majority mark stood at 147.
The BJP has won 207 seats in the 294-seat Bengal Assembly, with the Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee securing only 80 seats.
The Indian National Congress and Aam Janata Unnayan party won two seats each, while Communist Party of India (Marxist) and All India Secular Front got one seat each.
In the prestigious Bhabanipur assembly seat, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was defeated by BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, a former lieutenant of Mamata herself.
The BJP nominee Adhikari polled 73917 votes as against 58812 by Mamata Banerjee. The margin was a convincing gap of 15,105 votes.
Elections were also held in Assam and the saffron party returned to power in the 126-member assembly.
The BJP won BJP as many as 82 seats.
The principal opposition Congress could win only 19 seats. The NDA allies Bodo People's Front won 10, AGP- also picked up 10.
And AIUDF of Badruddin Ajmal was marginalised winning just two seats.
Home Minister Amit Shah has yet again emerged as a key political strategist. After BJP's 71 seats win (NDA - 73) in 2014 parliamentary polls in Uttar Pradesh; the West Bengal mandate is a clear endorsement of Shah's organisation capability.
The BJP's strategy for West Bengal was sharper, deeper yet far less rhetorical than in 2021.
In December 2025, Amit Shah reportedly set an ambitious target for the Bengal BJP unit, asking it to win a minimum of 20 assembly seats under four Lok Sabha constituencies:
Dum Dum,
Kolkata North,
Kolkata South and Jadavpur.
The BJP has not won a single assembly seat in these four parliamentary constituencies in the Assembly elections since 2016.
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party had marginal leads in only two seats --Jorashanko and Shyampukur-- out of the total 28 Assembly segments coming under the four parliamentary constituencies.
But the party leaders and karyakartas slogged and worked according to plans.
In 2026, the BJP established clear leads in many of the assembly constituencies coming under these four Lok Sabha constituencies. This is how differences are made electorally, it is said.
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Among others even opposition leaders such as Asaduddin Owaisi (AIMIM) and Shashi Tharoor (Congress) have applauded BJP's organisational skills and commitment to party programmes.
"The people of West Bengal have given power to the BJP, and that decision must be respected. It is the mandate of the people. I have consistently maintained that these so-called secular parties have not been able to stop the BJP," Owasi said.
"We have seen this in Delhi, where Arvind Kejriwal attempted to adopt a form of soft Hindutva. A similar approach was taken in Maharashtra by Uddhav Thackeray’s party, and to some extent by the erstwhile Nationalist Congress Party as well. The same pattern was visible in West Bengal under Mamata Banerjee and the All India Trinamool Congress."
He also maintained that -
"This image of Mamata Banerjee outside of West Bengal that she is liberal and secular is wrong.
She has exploited the Muslims as a vote bank, not treated them as citizens. Huge corruption happened under her administration. SIR is also a factor, but had TMC treated Muslims as citizens and not mere vote bank, then there would have been more development."
Articulate Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said - "They (BJP leaders) have done a good job of Bengal and Assam. It is partially because they are very very good at conducting elections.
They are professionally organised. They put on lot of resources including financal resources into the campaign.
"And there are things, all of us can learn from them".
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