After its victory in Falta repoll, the BJP’s tally in the 294-member West Bengal Assembly has risen to 208 seats, followed by Trinamool Congress at 80. The Congress and Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) have two seats each, while CPI(M) and the All India Secular Front (AISF) hold one seat each.
In the 2026 Assembly elections in West Bengal, the BJP bagged 207 seats, marking an end to TMC government's 15-year rule. The Mamata Banerjee-led party was restricted to 80 seats.
The Bengal BJP chief also issued a warning against any attempts to create unrest or disturb law and order following the change in government.
Ghosh, who won from the Kharagpur assembly constituency by a comfortable margin, was sworn in as a minister in the cabinet at the oath-taking ceremony held at Brigade Parade Ground.
Any agreement on the Teesta River, in particular, required the concurrence of the government in West Bengal, whose leadership under Mamata Banerjee consistently resisted arrangements it believed would hurt northern North Bengal’s irrigation and agricultural interests.
According to local sources, a group of BJP workers and supporters, many of them riding motorcycles, assembled near Banerjee’s residence in Kalighat soon after the oath-taking ceremony concluded.
The ceremony marked a historic breakthrough for the BJP in a state long dominated by the Left Front and later the Trinamool Congress. Thousands of party workers gathered across Kolkata as the BJP officially assumed power in West Bengal for the first time since Independence.
Amit Malviya, the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s national IT cell, took to X to address the TMC's allegations after the BJP's historic victory in the state.
An opinion piece in The Washington Post states that more votes have been cast for Prime Minister Narendra Modi than for "any politician in human history, by a margin in the hundreds of millions."
Calling the occasion a “historic dawn” for West Bengal, Adhikari welcomed PM Modi to the “City of Joy” and described the formation of the BJP government as the fulfilment of the aspirations of the party’s ideological founders.
