BJP Will Win More Than 200 Seats In Bengal, Improve Tally In Assam: Amit Shah

"We won 18 Lok Sabha seats out of the total 42 in 2019 and lost three by small margins. That too when people had doubts about our victory," Amit Shah said.

Home Minister Amit Shah said Tuesday the Congress' tie-up with the AIUDF will be a factor in the BJP-led alliance's win in the Assam assembly polls as voters will back the party decisively because its main rival cannot stop the influx of illegal immigrants by joining hands with Badruddin Ajmal, accused by the ruling bloc of protecting infiltrators. In an interview to PTI, the senior BJP leader also predicted a thumping win for his party in West Bengal, asserting that people there are yearning for a change from the Trinamool Congress'' "misrule" and will embrace Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for the state's development. "We will win more than 200 seats in Bengal and improve our tally in Assam," he said. Asked about the ground for his confidence about the BJP's big victory in the elections to 294-member West Bengal assembly, Mr Shah said the party has only strengthened its position since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls while the TMC's support base has eroded with a large number of its leaders quitting the organisation. Most of them have joined the BJP.