India, May 11 -- The electoral debacle in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, as foretold by exit polls, has changed the country's political landscape. The saffron brigade has added West Bengal as one more precious stone to their crown of 22 states ruled by their dispensation, the long-cherished dream for decades, and saw the decimation of a family-ruled Dravidian party of three generations bow down to a newly-emergent actor-turned-politician, Joseph Vijay, in Tamil Nadu.

There have been unprecedented twists and turns during the legislative assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Puducherry, Keralam, and Tamil Nadu, thanks to the master-strike by the Bharatiya Janata Party, hitting the jackpot in West Bengal, a dream nurtured since 2014 at la...