Three Chief Ministers who did
beat the trend this election are West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Tamil Nadu CM
Jayalalithaa and Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik who won big in their states, holding
their own against Narendra Modi.
In TamilNadu, Jayalalithaa's
AIADMK has taken the state, winning a whopping 38 out of 39 seats in the state
in an election where she took her biggest risk by not going with her
traditional allies, nor with Modi despite an old friendship.
If in Tamil Nadu it was for
Amma, West Bengal gave its support to Didi
with Mamata Banerjee winning 32 of 42 seats in the state, despite her taking on
Narendra Modi in a sharply worded campaign where she said she would have
arrested him had she been in power.
But the biggest holdout
against the BJP wave was Odisha, where Naveen Patnaik won the assembly for a
third time, as well as the Lok Sabha.
The irony however is that
each of these regional satraps could have expected to have a powerful role at
the Centre, had PM-elect Narendra Modi and the BJP's own results hadn't been so
spectacular.
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