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Northeast Assembly election results 2018: BJP read the tea leaves right

Its 'lucky' new office apart, the party's huge win is another feather in Amit Shah's cap, and a jolt to Prakash Karat

Assembly election in Meghalaya
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Women holding children, show their ink-marked fingers after casting their votes for the state Assembly elections, at a polling station at Byrnihat, Meghalaya on Tuesday. Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi
Voters in the northeastern states do not follow the ideological and electoral patterns of mainland India. But that cannot take away from the impressive performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the three northeastern states that went to polls in February. The BJP's showing is particularly sweeter for having defeated the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in Tripura, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to lead the celebrations at the BJP's newly inaugurated national headquarters here.

On the lighter side, but something that had gnawed at party leaders ever since the BJP national headquarter was shifted from