Pleasantly surprised by their seat tally of around 193 in West Bengal as of 2 pm on Monday (May 4), overshooting internal party estimates of bagging 185-plus Assembly seats, the BJP attributed its sweep of the state to several factors broadly falling under five categories. With what party insiders termed the core issues of “security”, whether this was in the context of the law and order condition in the state under 15 years of TMC rule, to “assurance” over the Dearness Allowance and pension of state government employees or Centre-led development, these are the reasons that party insiders attributed the party’s win in West Bengal to: 1. The women vote Receiving a fillip from the NDA government’s attempts to push through reservation for women in legislature last month, BJP insiders said the narrative around opposition parties being anti-women found “a lot of resonance” on the ground in West Bengal.…