Hyderabad, April 6 -- Anxiety is writ large on the faces of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bigwigs as the dragging on of the war in West Asia and devastating blows suffered by Israel have taken the steam out of its election campaign in four states and one Union Territory, which go to poll between April 9 and 29. 

As the saffron party is just a paper tiger in four out of five assemblies (barring Assam), the lingering of conflict for so long, thousands of kilometres away, has deprived it of excessive media space which it used to enjoy in all such exercises since 2014. At the same time, the BJP's electioneering is struggling to pick up momentum as the entire scenario has changed completely after February 28's bid to bring about regim...