Who says Modi isn’t faltering?

It has become a fashion to criticise Rahul Gandhi in the media but what about Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has amassed a pile of electoral defeats despite being in power and awash with funds? He has won nil seats in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, only one seat in Kerala, only three seats each in New Delhi, Bengal and Punjab, five seats in Telangana, four seats in Andhra Pradesh, ten seats in Odisha, thirteen seats in Goa, 21 seats in Manipur, 25 seats in Jammu and Kashmir, 48 seats in Bihar and 122 seats in Maharashtra. Only a blind person can say that Modi is not faltering. Right from its inception in 1980, the BJP has suffered heavy reverses and the present

failures are a continuation of the same. For all practical purposes, it is still a BJP-Mukt peninsula South of Cauvery. — Biju Cherian