Talking at a press convention in Kolkata on Friday, House Minister Amit Shah exuded confidence that the BJP had “received over 110” of the 152 seats within the first section of West Bengal elections, and that, together with the seats within the second section, the social gathering was on observe to type a authorities with a “decisive majority”.
“Primarily based on the suggestions we’ve got obtained, the individuals of Bengal have already determined their future within the first section itself… Voting throughout 152 seats in 16 constituencies, 92.88% turnout clearly signifies that Didi is out and the BJP is able to enter,” Shah instructed reporters.
“Worry is gone and belief is born. After conducting an inner evaluation with all social gathering officers late at night time (Thursday), I want to state clearly that the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering is anticipated to win greater than 110 of the 152 seats,” he added.
NDA insiders declare that the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s push for reservation for girls within the Lok Sabha and state assemblies may enhance the alliance’s share of ladies votes in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu elections by 3-5%.
Some NDA leaders have likened the ladies’s quota to main central authorities bulletins comparable to earnings tax exemption for earnings as much as Rs 12.5 million, which led to the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s victory within the 2025 Delhi meeting elections.
“The difficulty of ladies’s reservation and the Opposition’s rejection of the associated constitutional modification invoice is being seen as a key plank of the BJP that might assist the NDA garner a further 3-5 per cent girls vote share within the elections in each Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, the place girls voters maintain vital sway,” a BJP supply stated.
Supported by the RSS, which is sending an anti-opposition message domestically, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering camp is planning a 15-day lobbying marketing campaign on the ladies’s quota difficulty, which is anticipated to final till early Might, individuals aware of the matter stated. Forward of Thursday’s vote, these narratives had been tied to the social gathering’s insistence on incumbency and dynastic politics in each states.
The difficulty was delivered to heart stage in Tamil Nadu by Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself a day after the constitutional modification invoice was handed in Parliament on April 17, however Bharatiya Janata Social gathering insiders stated it could be additional curbed by the state management through the two polling durations in Bengal.
Simply earlier than addressing the nation on the ladies’s reservation difficulty on April 18, Prime Minister Modi, at a rally in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, sought to spotlight that the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering-led NDA has taken a “historic step in direction of implementing girls’s reservations” after the 2023 invoice was handed, as a part of which he requested political events to help the invoice.
“I instructed them they will take the credit score. I simply need extra of our sisters to come back to Parliament. However sadly, these noble efforts had been delayed. The DMK, Congress and their allies made this invoice an object of hatred. Had this invoice been handed earlier, many Tamil girls from odd households would have turn out to be MPs and MLAs,” he stated.
Report turnout was recorded in each Tamil Nadu and Bengal, which voted in single-phase elections, on Thursday, in response to Election Fee (EC) figures. In Bengal, the turnout in first-term seats reached 92.88%, up from 82.3% in 2021, whereas in Tamil Nadu, the turnout in all 234 seats rose to 85.15% from 73.6% in 2021. In each states, feminine voter turnout was greater than male voting charges: 92.69% to 90.92% in Bengal and 90.92% in Tamil. In Nadu, it was 85.76% versus 83.57%. In 2021, the hole in voter turnout between women and men has narrowed. Moreover, in each states, feminine voter turnout elevated by extra factors than male voter turnout beginning in 2021.
In Bengal, of the 6.44 billion voters, 3.28 billion are male voters, whereas 3.16 billion are feminine voters. The comparability between ladies and men in 2021 was 3.59 billion versus 3.74 billion. Feminine voting price elevated from 81.75% in 2021 to 92.69% this yr.
In 2021, the ruling Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) secured 48.02 per cent of the votes, properly forward of the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s 38.1 per cent, whereas the Congress fell quick by 10 per cent.
Girls voters outnumber males in Tamil Nadu, accounting for two.89 billion in opposition to 2.77 billion males out of the state’s whole voters of 5.67 billion. In 2021, there have been once more extra girls voting than males, 3.19 billion versus 3.09 billion. Feminine voting price elevated from 72.61% in 2021 to 85.76% this yr.
In 2021, the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering secured 2.62% of the vote share in Tamil Nadu, whereas NDA ally AIADMK secured 33.29%. In distinction, the ruling DMK received 37.7% votes and its ally Congress received 4.27% votes.
“Key voting board”
RSS sources say the Sangh social gathering sees itself as “unusually women-led” when it comes to voting patterns, with girls’s reservation being considered one of a number of points the social gathering has agitated on the bottom in each Tamil Nadu and Bengal.
“The ladies’s reservation, which had been stalled by the opposition events, has been added to the vimarsh (session) pamphlets distributed by the Sangh to voters on the bottom and is bound to seize consideration as anticipated in each the states which have a lot of girls electors,” RSS sources stated.
