MJ Akbar
If Congress leaders had to resign after defeat, Rahul Gandhi would have gone from his post after a calamitous 2014 and left politics after 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with BJP volunteers in the US who worked behind the scenes for his public engagements
Devi Lal’s heirs deluded themselves into believing farmers would never let them down
Congress suffered a major setback as hopes of a victory in Haryana evaporated as BJP’s social coalition prevailed while it under-performed in J&K too
Dalit disenchantment with BJP is making the Haryana polls a close contest
Caste is the unspoken factor behind more publicised issues like farmers’ ire and unemployment. Siddharth Singh reports from northern Haryana