BJP’s sweeping West Bengal win marks a dramatic expansion of its national footprint and a major setback for Mamata Banerjee’s TMC. Psephologist Sandeep Shastri decodes the verdict and what it means for INDIA’s future
Sandeep Shastri, a psephologist who has studied Indian elections for decades and is Vice President of the Nitte Education Trust, attributes the BJP’s comprehensive victory to five major factors. One of the most important, he said, was the party’s decision to completely alter its campaign strategy from the one it had adopted in the previous election.