West Bengal election result: Why BJP's Bengal win reverberated globally
The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) commanding victory in the West Bengal Assembly election has triggered an unusually wide international reaction, with responses ranging from Washington to Dhaka — a scale of attention rarely seen after a state-level poll in India. The result, which ended Mamata Banerjee's 15-year rule in the state, is being read in diplomatic and strategic circles as something far larger than a regional political shift.
US President Donald Trump congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on what the White House described as a