'The political situation in the country will depend on the electoral outcome in Maharashtra.'
Biman Basu, the senior-most Marxist leader in the country, pays homage to a comrade he has known and admired since the 1980s.
The 95-year-old Marxist breathed his last at the AMRI Hopsital where he had been admitted on January 1 with a 'moderately severe' pneumonic infection.
The BJP could win only 16 out of 57 seats where Shah campaigned.