Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) showed no signs of losing electoral popularity in 2025, the eleventh year of BJP rule in India.

In 2025, the BJP not only wrested the Delhi state assembly — the all-important national capital region — from the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), but also retained the eastern Indian state of Bihar with the best electoral performance the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government ever recorded.

The Delhi win was significant because the party returned to power in the capital region after 27 years and subdued one of its key rivals in northern India.

Besides, the BJP also clinched the vice presidential election by bagging more votes than their formal numerical strength, indicating their ability to engineer splits in the opposition camp in crucial elections.

The scenario is quite in contrast to what it was a year and a half ago, when the BJP faced a mini setback in the 2024 parliamentary elections. It failed to secure a clear majority on its own and had to depend on regional allies like Bihar’s Janata Dal (United), or the JD(U), and Andhra Pradesh’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) to form the government.

However, it regained strength by the end of 2024 after comprehensively winning the Haryana and Maharashtra state elections.

Since then, their electoral victory run has remained unstoppable, giving the party strong momentum ahead of the crucial state assembly elections due next year in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. The BJP is in power in Assam, and has never come to power in the three other states.

“BJP is now at its highest-ever strength in State Assemblies and the momentum is only growing,” the party announced in a social media post on November 17, soon after the Bihar election results came out.

The party pointed out that it had only 1,035 members in different state assemblies in 2014, the year Modi came to power, and the tally had reached 1,654 after the Bihar election victory. The party expressed confidence that, at the current rate, it will comfortably add another 150 seats to the tally through the elections scheduled in the next two years.

India has 28 states and three Union Territories with legislative assemblies, with a cumulative tally of 4,123 seats.

There has not been any voice from the opposition camp challenging the BJP’s optimism, as the opposition, including its central force, the Congress, appears to be in disarray.

At a time when the BJP is making major organizational........

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