Rahul, Vadra, Sachin: The abuse of informal power

Increasingly, Narendra Modi’s speeches write themselves; every time Rahul Gandhi says something, Modi gets fodder for his next speech. Rahul Gandhi’s comments have a strange disconnected quality about them. It is not easy to unite Muslim clerics and Narendra Modi on many issues, or to make BJP the guardian of minority rights, but he seems to have managed it quite effortlessly. Coming on the back of his emotional plea recounting the sacrifices made by his family, again hardly the kind of pitch that is likely to resonate today, his statements have an other-worldly quality, and head scratching follows quite frequently.

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