Buoyed by electoral victories in West Bengal, Assam, and Puducherry, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) appears keen to hold that momentum into Punjab, treating it as the subsequent domino in an extended line ready to fall. In a daring transfer, it’s readying itself to go solo for the Assembly polls in Punjab, due in 2027.
The BJP has been current in Punjab because the nation’s independence. People know what it stands for, what it has accomplished and what it has not accomplished. Before 1992, when the BJP (earlier often called the Bharatiya Jana Sangh) was combating alone, it secured, on common, 6%-7% of the vote share through the Assembly elections. Later, when the BJP entered into an alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in 1997, its vote share went up a tad to round 8%, in response to the guide Electoral Politics in Punjab. In 2022, the BJP contested the Assembly elections in alliance with the Punjab Lok Congress and bought 6.6% of the vote.
Published – May 06, 2026 01:36 am IST
