Although the Bharatiya Janata Party is the opposition party in the Bengal state assembly today, in the 2026 election they are most likely to slip from that designation. In the last assembly election in Bengal in 2021, BJP could bag only 77 seats compared to 213 of the Trinamool Congress and in the parliamentary elections this year, their downfall continued. BJP secured only 12 seats, compared to 18 seats in 2019.