The BJP and RSS combine were entrenched in Tripura for the last two years, sewing and spinning the electoral undercurrents against the incumbent Manik Sarkar’s CPI-M government. With tech-based innovative methods of campaigning and booth management and the traditional grassroots approach of the RSS, they cracked open the Left bastion and finally opened Tripura to the world. Pursuant to the liberalization of 1991, Tripura has only seen twenty-five years of Left rule. The saffron wave which always rides on the promise of development has provided a fitting climax to the Manik Sarkar government which on March 11th would have completed twenty years in power and April would have seen full twenty-five years of left rule in the state. This victory was not achieved by taking liberties with truth as has been the trend in recent state elections, but it has been achieved by the BJP addressing hard facts which the Left could no longer skirt.