Congress’s best hope: Contain Modi

Politics is a strange game. At times, an adversary’s belligerence becomes a boon for the protagonist’s stature and appeal. That’s what happened in the 2007 polls when Sonia Gandhi collared Narendra Modi for the post-Godhra pogrom. The Congress chief called him a merchant of death — maut ka saudagar. The Gujarat CM latched on to the phrase to polarise voters, weaving, in the process, the story of his second electoral success in the state where the Congress hasn’t tasted power for a decade-and-a-half.

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