Despite impressive Lok Sabha show, challenges lie ahead for BJP in Bengal

With two years to go before West Bengal elects its next government, the internal objective is to scale down the TMC tally from 211 to 45 seats

Amit Shah, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has yet to pitch his expectations from the West Bengal assembly polls with a “mission something” figure, even after the party netted 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats, possibly because a similar tagline of “Mission 150” in Karnataka got a thumbs down when it fell way short of the projected number in the 2018 state elections. 

With two years to go before West Bengal elects its next government, the internal objective is to scale down the Trinamool Congress (TMC) tally from 211 to 45 seats. This amounts to an annihilation of