State polls: Five (and a half) key takeaways from five verdicts

BJP created history in Assam by ousting Congress which also lost Kerala to the Left front while incumbents AIADMK and Trinamool Congress retained power in Tamil Nadu and West Bengal for a second consecutive term.

Here's what the verdicts in five elections tell us about Modi Sarkar, a new national opposition force, and the state of the Congress. Anirban Bora and Indrajit Hazra cull out some chunky bits from the assembly elections for future poll candidates to chew on.



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