West Bengal is seen as the most difficult for the BJP..

West Bengal is one of the most challenging states for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019. So far, most experts have said that the battle for West Bengal is very difficult for the BJP, due to the BJP led by Mamta Banerjee, who is in favor of secularism. However, now BJP can benefit from communal polarization in the state. According to the news published in The Asian Age, it is due to the spread of anti-minority sentiment very fast in the state, especially in the capital, Kolkata.

In West Bengal, where the impact of the Congress went down every year, in the coming assembly elections in 2016, the Left parties also came to be marginalized. Then he came in third place in the 2018 elections, and the BJP reached number two. Now West Bengal's main electoral battle is between Mamata Banerjee's TMC and BJP in which the BJP can get the benefit

West Bengal is seen as the most difficult for the BJP..

According to the newspaper, the BJP's only agenda in Bengal is to polarize votes, and its purpose seems to be particularly successful in urban areas. Talking about the capital of Kolkata, anti-minority feelings can be felt on all the Lok Sabha seats (Kolkata South, Kolkata North, Jadavpur and Damdam). According to the report, people of a residential complex located in Kolkata's Karaya Road have banned the arrival of Muslim tenants. Such a growing feeling towards the Muslim community is also being seen in the intellectual society with the common people. The newspaper quoted a senior journalist who was once against the BJP's "communal politics". But now when he is made the Firhad Hakim as the Mayor of Kolkata, he says, "How can a Muslim be the Mayor of Kolkata


At the same time, a person running a cab in Kolkata said, 'Didi (Mamta Banerjee) thinks only about Muslims. See the population of Muslims in Bengal. It is growing rapidly. Demography is changing now. "Similarly, Madhusudan, who runs a book shop, says," In Bengal, Hindus are losing their voice. "

Indeed, the Mamta Government had started a scheme to donate to the Imams every month, which has not been withdrawn so far. A large part of the middle class in Bengal is affected. BJP President Amit Shah had said this while making the issue, "Mamta Banerjee government gives allowances to the Imams every month, but not the priests." Shah also accused Mamata of promoting Urdu in schools. Apart from this, in the year 2017, the Mamta Government had banned the immersion of idols of Goddess Durga at the time of the arrival of Tajia in Muharram. Apart from this, the feelings of Bengali Hindus were hurt. According to the report, such incidents have allowed the BJP to do communal polarization in Bengal.

Amit Shah has targeted to win 23 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The report said that this spirit can overcome even transformed the then BJP at least eight to ten seats in the vote in rural areas with urban. At present, he has two MPs from Bengal In the 2011 assembly elections, she only got four percent votes. But in the 2014 general elections, 17 percent of the people voted for the party. The Muslim population in Bengal is around 30 percent, which will vote for Mamta Banerjee only. That is why the BJP is not making any effort to do the Hindu vote bank in its own right. It must be seen how successful it is to try this