After winning 3 states, credit goes to RaGa for reviving ailing Congress?

Modi's glaring weaknesses - as a leader, as a prime minister, and even a vote-catcher - are too obvious to ignore

In the last four years or so, Narendra Modi’s supporters – especially the new ones – have moved from exuberance (finally, the corrupt Congress is out and India has the leader it needs) to hope (it is early days, but he will change India), to resigned patience (it’s not an easy job) to reluctant disappointment (this government has wasted its goodwill).

If there is disgust at rising communalism, it is well-hidden. Communalism, even violence against minorities, isn’t a worry for those newly infatuated – that is, not the Sangh parivar hardcore, but the neo-bhakts.

Modi’s base grew beyond the usual core of