'The lotus now blooms from Gangotri to Gangasagar': PM Modi hails historic win in West Bengal

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday as counting trends showed the party surging past the majority mark in West Bengal and retaining power in Assam. Addressing jubilant party workers, Modi opened with characteristic humility, "As a karyakarta, I join other BJP workers on this occasion," before declaring that the lotus had finally bloomed in Bengal.