Opinion | Know Your Enemy: How BJP Radically Reframed Its Strategy Against TMC And Won

The BJP framed the polls as a battle against TMC’s entrenched ‘syndicate raj’—a network of political muscle, corruption & extortion—rather than against a conventional party

Just before the West Bengal assembly elections, I had asked a senior BJP leader if the party was taking a different approach in its fight against the Trinamool Congress (TMC). He replied: “Yes. So far, we had fought against the TMC, considering it a rival political party. This time, we are taking it for what it really is: a political collective of crime syndicates."

Looking back at the election, which has just concluded with a saffron sweep, the genius of assessing the real nature of your enemy and radically reframing your strategy based on it begins to dawn on you.

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The BJP framed the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections as a battle against TMC’s entrenched ‘syndicate raj’—a network of political muscle, corruption, extortion, and crime syndicates—rather than against a conventional political party. The BJP’s top central and state leadership repeatedly described the TMC regime as an enabler of goons, infiltrators, cut-money culture, coal cartels, education and chit-fund scams, and rampant political and communal violence.

In all its promises, the BJP vowed a “permanent surgery" on........

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