THE WAKE-UP CALL

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is reeling from the shock of the West Bengal assembly poll results, where despite its vaulting ambitions, the party has managed a far more modest 77 legislators to its name in a 294-member house. The BJP had turned the state election into a prestige issue, deploying its poll management specialists from across the country, and using Amit Shah’s ‘shock and awe’ tactics to shake up things. The party, and Shah especially, had trumpeted its predictions of winning more than 200 seats. Now it’s left to review the failure to maintain