Assembly polls 2021: Three regional parties will be under siege like never before

In October 2015, RSS joint general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale told Reuters: “We would want the BJP to win all the state elections because only then can significant social, political and cultural changes take place in this country. The 2014 election victory should be seen as the starting point of a long-term mission.” Exactly a year later, then BJP president Amit Shah told cadres at the party’s national executive meeting held in Odisha that it