While its unprecedented sweep of West Bengal will add more confidence to the BJP’s campaign for over half a dozen state Assembly elections due next year, the NDA will have to wait till 2029 for its dominance to take shape in the Rajya Sabha. Following the merger of seven Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MPs with the BJP in the Rajya Sabha, the BJP-led NDA’s tally in the Council of States is currently 148 in the 245-member House – 15 seats short of a two-thirds majority of 163 seats required for pushing significant legislative business like the constitutional amendments. The NDA members in the Upper House include 113 MPs of the BJP, 5 of the AIADMK, 4 each from the Janata Dal (United) and NCP, 2 each from the Telugu Desam Party, Shiv Sena and United People’s Party (Liberal) and 1 each from the Rashtriya Lok Dal, Janata Dal (Secular), Ason Gana Parishad, Republican Party of India (Athawale) and Rashtriya Lok Morcha. The tally also includes 7 nominated members who have not yet joined the BJP, …