The BJP's astounding performance in West Bengal in 2019, when it won 18 of the state's 42 seats was not an outlier and the party is set to do even better this time, exit polls have predicted.
And, in what will be an even bigger setback for the ruling Trinamool Congress in the state, at least two exit polls have said that the BJP will now be the single-largest party in Bengal in terms of Lok Sabha seats.