New Delhi, May 11 -- The election results across five assemblies will, undisputedly, impact and reshape India's federal-parliamentary political landscapes both in the shorter and longer run. However, in the context of its historic triumph in Bengal, it is a watershed moment in Indian politics.

For more than a change of government, it marks the transition from 'fear to trust', which is the most fundamental prerequisite of any democratic polity. For serious students of political parties (stasiologists) BJP's electoral breakthrough in Bengal is, at its core, a story of organisation--of painstaking groundwork, cadre expansion, a disciplined political machine, organisational robustness, and cadre management, for strategic and effective outrea...