Just over a year ago, Narendra Modi appeared, for the first time since he stormed Delhi in 2014, vincible and vulnerable. The Prime Minister’s party, denied a majority in Parliament, straggled back to power with the aid of allies in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar. Those who regarded this moment as perhaps the beginning of the end of Modi’s predominance in Indian politics overlooked his great boon: The Congress Party.

Rather than seize the opening granted by the outcome of last year’s general elections to put a squeeze on the BJP, India’s principal Opposition party retreated into its make-believe world in which it is a noble victim. Dedicated to perpetuating the preeminence of one family, it refused to subject itself to sincere self-assessment. It acted in erratic ways. It taunted Modi in one br

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