The storming of the hustings in West Bengal and Assam by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday (May 4, 2026), with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) winning in Puducherry and securing three Assembly seats in the bipolar polity of Kerala, heralded a big day for the BJP politically, especially with its victory in West Bengal, in the making for decades.

The implications of these results for the BJP are manifold and significant, in particular the win in West Bengal. Firstly, the party is now uninterruptedly in power from Gangotri in Uttarakhand, the origin of the Ganga, to Gangasagar in West Bengal, where river meets the Bay of Bengal. The birthplace of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee, the founder of the BJP’s earlier avatar, the Jan Sangh, the border State of West Bengal has always been ideologically very important for the party.