1. TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE BJP’s economic thinking is taking place, draw two parallel lines through the heart of India. The states that fall within these are, west to east, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Odisha. In recent years, all of them have been clocking growth of over 10%, and all are BJP-ruled, except Odisha, where the BJP has a strong presence and had a successful coalition government with the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) till 2007. 2. The BJP-ruled states and its