With the BJP’s resounding victory in West Bengal, ending the 15-year rule of the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government, the party has secured the chief minister’s post for the first time in nine states since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014.
The journey began with Haryana and Maharashtra in 2014, followed by Assam (2016), Arunachal Pradesh (2016), Manipur (2017), Tripura (2018), Odisha (2024), Bihar (2026), and now West Bengal.
In Haryana, the party formed a government on its own for the first time and appointed Manohar Lal Khattar as chief minister.
In Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis became the state’s first BJP chief minister after the BJP emerged as the single-largest party in the assembly polls and formed the government with allies in the Mahayuti alliance.
The BJP expanded its footprint in the Northeast in 2016 by winning Assam, where Sarbananda Sonowal became the party’s first chief minister in the state.
Since then, the BJP has retained power in Assam