The new order is upon us in a surging tide of saffron
that seems unstoppable. The Lok Sabha elections show the Bharatiya Janata Party
advancing in a broad front across the country. Its reverses in the Madhya
Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan assembly elections of November 2018 were a
temporary blip and the fearsome electoral machine created by party president
Amit Shah is running at full speed.
Not everything went to plan but the BJP (or the National
Democratic Alliance that it heads)