What Wrong About Modi Becoming First Among Unequals?

By Sudheer Jha
Special Correspondent in Delhi

Our politics are now at their adversarial worst. We seem to be in constant electioneering mode, which means that political rivals focus on trying to define the adversary’s image. Which is what the Congress party is trying to do to prime minister Narendra Modi.

With his mother not taking as active a role as before, and with a figurehead as the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party, Rahul Gandhi has now emerged as the de facto leader of the opposition, which is quite a transformation from being the crown prince.