Learning from its failure

India's main opposition, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), could hardly have chosen differently. At a big party gathering, in Goa, on June 9th, its leaders picked Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat (front row, to the left), to oversee its campaign for national elections, due by May 2014. This does not mean, quite, he is the party’s prime-ministerial candidate, but it comes close. It certainly confirms what had been abundantly clear for months: Mr Modi is the dominant figure of the opposition. It marks, too, the fading away of an old warhorse in the party, Lal Krishna Advani (front row, centre).

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