BJP Wins West Bengal, Paves Way for Civil Code
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- BJP is projected to win West Bengal and retain Assam, giving it control of 20 of India’s 28 states and two of its three union territories, a dominance not seen since the 1960s.
- Modi and his home minister Amit Shah addressed more than 80 rallies and roadshows in West Bengal during the campaign, underscoring the party’s heavy resource deployment.
- BJP's push for a Uniform Civil Code could now be advanced at the state level, as it controls additional legislatures, even though it lacks a two‑thirds majority in parliament.
- Election Commission said electoral‑roll revisions in Bengal removed millions of voters, many Muslims, a process it said followed established procedures to eliminate duplicates, deceased or relocated voters.
- BJP reported a total income of 67.69 billion rupees ($712 million) for the 2024/25 financial year, far exceeding the Congress party’s 9.18 billion rupees.
- BJP pledged to deport illegal Muslim migrants from Bangladesh and to provide monthly assistance of 3,000 rupees to women and unemployed youth in Bengal, while continuing a free‑food ration scheme that reaches over 800 million Indians.
- Rahul Verma noted that some BJP‑governed states have already drafted their own civil‑code versions and that the party may consider redrawing constituencies and holding simultaneous state‑national polls, though not within the next six months to a year.
Why it matters: With the BJP now governing the majority of Indian states, it can enact its Uniform Civil Code and infrastructure projects at the subnational level, boosting investor confidence and welfare delivery, while opposition parties lose their regional footholds and face diminished influence.
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