Mr Modi vs Manifesto: P Chidambaram´s take on PM Modi´s whirlwind campaigning and Congress´ manifesto
(WorldNews Business)

EVERY LOK Sabha election in India is unique even if the two main contestants are the same. One of the reasons is that the political parties, other than the two main contestants, change their positions between elections. There is another important reason: a main contestant may undergo a radical transformation, for better or worse, and the party s item into the battle in a new avatar may not resemble any previous occasion. That s what has happened in 2019. The incumbent of 2014 (the Congress) has become the principal challenger and the challenger of 2014 (the BJP) is the incumbent. The apparent role reversal has, however, acquired a twist because the BJP of 2019 is not the BJP of 2014. The...