However, they feel, it is difficult to guess whether it would be translated into winning seats. The saffron party made the breakthrough in the late 90s when it contested the Lok Sabha election in alliance with the Trinamool Congress.
Political parties also acknowledged that the BJP had emerged as a force to reckon with in the polarised state politics.
State Congress president and Union minister Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury admitted as much, 'I cannot say that the BJP will not get votes. It is a force, but not a deciding factor. As an opponent we should not belittle the party'.
Taking a serious note of the rising graph of the BJP and its role in splitting votes, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee sharpened her attack against the saffron party in her election meetings urging the people to reject it.
