The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rose on the crest of a pro-Narendra Modi wave to score its best ever showing in Uttar Pradesh, India’s premier political state, and establishing the pre-eminence of Prime Minister Modi and Amit Shah, the BJP president and Modi’s closest political associate in the national polity, the BJP and the larger Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) fraternity.
Defying most political assessments that maintained even on the eve of counting that UP would throw up an inconclusive verdict despite the odds favouring the BJP and speculating on the likelihood of a composite alliance that would include the Samajwadi
