New Delhi:
Bengal BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari, boosted by his celebration’s outstanding win within the 2025 Delhi Assembly election – fired a warning at Mamata Banerjee on Saturday night – ‘look out, you are subsequent’.
Chatting with reporters after the BJP’s win was confirmed, Mr Adhikari exulted, “Delhi ki jeet hamari hain… 2026 mein Bengal ki baari‘”, or ‘We’ve got received Delhi, in 2026 it is Bengal’s flip’.
One other senior Bengal BJP chief, Sukanta Majumdar, served up an identical warning, declaring, “Individuals of Bengal may also vote for the BJP… within the subsequent Meeting election…”
Each additionally thanked the Bengali group in Delhi for the BJP’s win, though it’s unclear (at the moment) in the event that they voted for the saffron celebration or for Aam Aadmi Occasion, which was backed by Ms Banerjee.
#WATCH | #DelhiElectionResults | West Bengal LoP and BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari says, “Delhi ki jeet hamari hai…2026 mein Bengal ki baari hai…” pic.twitter.com/fVVzS2Ypqj
— ANI (@ANI) February 8, 2025
The BJP has routed the AAP in Delhi, successful 48 of 70 Meeting seats, a dramatic enchancment from the eight it received within the 2020 election and three within the 2015. Defeat for the AAP right this moment was compounded by celebration boss Arvind Kejriwal and his aide, Manish Sisodia, dropping their particular person contests.
READ | Arvind Kejriwal Loses New Delhi Seat As AAP Is Routed
BJP’s Bengal Focus
The Bengal BJP leaders’ warnings come forward of the Bengal election in March-April subsequent 12 months and underlines the BJP’s dedication to interrupt Mamata Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress, which has, over the previous decade, been a thorn within the facet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP.
Ms Banerjee has led the Trinamool to victory over Prime Minister Modi and the BJP in three consecutive main elections – the 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha polls, and the 2021 Bengal election. The Trinamool additionally registered a near-clean sweep BJP within the 2021 Kolkata native physique polls.
Within the 2019 federal election, the Trinamool eked out a four-seat win over the BJP. 5 years later she flexed her political muscle mass and left the saffron celebration additional behind, successful 29 seats to open a 17-seat margin. In between, the BJP was thumped within the 2021 state election for good measure.
However every win was adopted by fierce squabbling between the 2 events, with allegations of orchestrating post-poll violence – gunfights, mob killings, and crude bomb assaults that killed celebration employees and supporters from either side – and including to the unhealthy blood.
That enmity elevated as the 2 went head-to-head over controversies to have hit Ms Banerjee’s authorities, together with the rape and homicide of a younger physician at Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital in August final 12 months and claims of sexual assault in Sandeshkhali by native Trinamool chief Sheikh Shahjahan.
A lot of the BJP’s current assaults on Ms Banerjee have been led by Mr Adhikari, who was the Chief Minister’s confidante earlier than his shock change in December 2020, weeks earlier than the final state ballot.
READ | In Sandeshkhali, Suvendu Adhikari’s “Revenge” Warning To Mamata
On the Sandeshkhali scandal, for instance, final month Mr Adhikari mentioned, “… the BJP will ship you to jail for making these ladies go to jail in false circumstances. We’ll take revenge, with curiosity.”
On Mamata Banerjee’s Assist Of AAP
The jabs at Ms Banerjee are additionally important as a result of the Trinamool had backed the AAP – in a transfer that raised pressure inside the INDIA bloc after it and the Congress did not agree seat-share deal.
That wound up, doubtlessly, permitting the BJP to canter to victory after the AAP misplaced a number of seats attributable to Congress candidates splitting votes.
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Nevertheless, fashioned to defeat the BJP in state and central elections, the INDIA grouping has stuttered and flattered to impress because it was fashioned in June 2023. Repeated defeats in elections led to questions over the Congress’ management of the bloc, and Ms Banerjee has emerged as a possible replacement.
Ms Banerjee rising to guide the INDIA bloc shouldn’t be one thing the BJP will favour, for not solely will it make the duty of successful the 2026 Bengal election that a lot tougher, it should additionally complicate its 2029 prep.
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