Election
2014 was supposed to be an unequal battle. Political observers had
written off the possibility of a UPA comeback and the dice looked loaded
in favour of the BJP-led NDA. The game has got even now.
Of
course, back then nobody foresaw the implosion in the BJP and the NDA
over the former’s decision to elevate Narendra Modi as the face of its
election campaign. Everyone underestimated the power of the Congress’s
survival instincts; some even predicted its death.
