BJP needs Modi model for surge

Politicians are inclined to talk up their prospects and performance. To that extent, Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s supercilious assertion last Thursday that the Congress had actually won the election need not be taken too seriously. By that count Modi’s claim that if the votes of both Gujarat and Himachal were added the Congress would still have lost, was at best  a rhetorical flourish. However, behind these one-upmanship games, a natural part of the electoral tamasha, there is a more serious point.

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