India's Opposition is being asked to perform the herculean task of not only taking on a resourceful and ruthless BJP but also fending off a battery of institutions that serve only one side.
BJP won Mustafabad, but it was courtesy AIMIM which emerged as a vote cutter. While AAP had Muslim candidates in five seats, Congress had six such candidates.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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