The ballots have been cast in India's most hotly contested political battleground, and the only question on everyone's mind is whether the BJP's sustained project to breach Mamata Banerjee's fortress of West Bengal has finally been successful. Exit polls indicate that it has. While the NDTV-Axis My India exit poll data for West Bengal will be released on Thursday for greater accuracy because voting in the state has just ended, six other pollsters have released their numbers, and four of them have said the BJP is poised to come to power in the state for the first time. Of 294 constituencies in the Bengal Assembly, with 148 required to get a majority, Praja Poll's numbers will give any Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporter pause. The agency has predicted that the BJP will win 178-208 seats, up from 77 in 2021, while the TMC will be restricted to 85-110, down massively from 215. P-Marq's numbers state the BJP will win 150-175 constituencies and the Trinamool between 118 and 138. Matrize has predicted 146-161 seats for the BJP, and Poll Diary 142-171. These pollsters say the TMC will get 125-140 and 99-127, respectively.