It’s in character with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s style of doing things that the real surprises come not during elections but after them. After the exit polls, a clean sweep of the three heartland states by the BJP was very much in the realm of possibility. The spring cleaning that followed after that would have left even senior party apparatchiks gasping in disbelief, though. The picture is compelling indeed. A whole class of established politicians stands demonetised, at least for now. And we have a full gallery of mint-new faces entering a rarefied realm even they may not have dared to dream of. Occupying the chief minister’s chair in Chhattisgarh,
