Saffron strategy: The rise and rise of BJP in Northeast

India's northeast is now awash in saffron - the only exception being Mizoram. That could change later this year, when Aizawl gets a new assembly ahead of next year's general election.

Telangana chief minister and TRS leader K Chandrashekhar Rao has expressed the need for a Third Front in India - an alternative to the BJP and the Congress. He has received support from his West Bengal counterpart, Mamata Banerjee, among others.