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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in West Bengal marks a turning point in Indian politics. The saffron party has won the state, India’s fourth most populous, for the first time, defeating the Trinamool Congress (TMC), which was in power for fifteen years.
For decades, Bengal was under the Left, and then under Mamata Banerjee’s TMC. Now the BJP has breached the barrier, and it has happened not overnight, but through years of patient groundwork. This victory is thus less a........