Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, “Ganga flows from Bihar to Bengal”. After the mammoth victory in Bengal the Prime Minister, speaking at the Delhi party headquarters, declared that now the “jungle raj of Bengal would also be over”. 

Understandably, the BJP was in a pensive state in West Bengal when its national leadership requested a membership drive of one crore but was unable to gather more than a few lakh candidates. Additionally, there were internal conflicts among state authorities. At that point, there was hope that Mamata would be overthrown; this was followed by the outcome of the Bihar election and the Prime Minister's victory speech. It's natural for BJP cadres in West Bengal to thus feel re-energised. 

However, the primary concern is whether West Bengal will also deliver what Bihar gave to the NDA, disproving the exit polls. Nothing is impossible in politics, as Napoleon once stated. Even so, he still had to deal with Waterloo. Therefore, despite all of the BJP's optimistic rhetoric, the West Bengal BJP will face several challenges.

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