Kaun banega PM: How the coyness of others boosts Modi’s claims

Nitish Kumar has dared to utter the P-word. Sort of. Asked if he was joining the race for PM, Kumar said according to The Times of India “I am qualified”. And then he asked a presumably rhetorical question. “What do I lack (to be PM)?” Now that the election date has been announced it’s as if some tacit embargo on voicing prime ministerial ambitions has been lifted. Until this point, everyone had been happy to play coy.

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