New Delhi, May 4 -- The political landscape of India shifted on Monday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared a "new chapter" for West Bengal. While the victory was won in the polling booths of the present, the rhetoric of the day looked back nearly eighty years to the man whose ideological DNA remains the bedrock of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

In a victory speech charged with emotion, PM Modi invoked Mookerjee's soul, suggesting that the election results were the final fulfilment of a struggle that began during the Partition of India.

"Today, as a BJP worker, another thought keeps coming to my mind. The soul of Shyama Prasad Mookerjee must be at so much peace today. Mookerjee fought a major battle to ...