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Modi has taken Bengal, the last big state outside his column. The win at home runs alongside a neighborhood that keeps drifting away.
The West Bengal sweep is the most significant domestic power consolidation since 2024, leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governing 20 of 28 states and the opposition without a regional anchor capable of building a national counter-coalition.
Delhi's planned BRICS convening on Iran-Gulf dialogue and the Vietnam and South Korea upgrades extend its diplomatic surface, but the work so far is venue-hosting, not outcome-shaping. India is doing more diplomatic activity than its actual influence over results yet reflects.
The Nepal-Sri Lanka-Maldives pattern is repeating in Dhaka, and a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) government leaning toward Beijing would close India's eastern flank while attention sits on Pakistan and Kashmir.
BJP sweeps West Bengal; fifteen-year opposition hold ends. Trinamool Congress and Tamil Nadu's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) collapse as regional anchors. Delimitation amendment defeated in parliament. BRICS foreign ministers' meeting on Iran-Gulf dialogue scheduled in Delhi.
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