BJP WIN

Articles on BJP win in state elections in India: NYT, the Hindu, Aljazeera, Hindustan Times. As far as I can tell, the media line, encouraged by Vajpayee, is that they won by rejecting the extremism of folks to their (neo-fascist) right like the VHP, although the VHP's web site claims that they "came to the aid" of the BJP.

MORE: I called VHP "neo-fascist." This is incorrect. In fact, seems to me that it's more accurate to say that they're simply fascists, in the sense that Paul Berman uses that term in Terror and Liberalism.