The underlying message from the four states and one union territory that went to polls is that leadership counts. Despite its hoopla, eagerly consumed by a Delhi-centric media, BJP’s chariot in Bengal failed to pip the post. Among other factors, this was because it did not have a state leader who could match Mamata Banerjee in popularity. Not that BJP’s emergence as the principal opposition in parliamentary and, now, assembly polls, in the state
Source: Economic Times
