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Courts, courtiers, and magicians

Behind the teetering government in Rajasthan ― and the Congress's collapse in Madhya Pradesh four months ago ― is the saga of the Gandhi dynasty scraping the bottom of the barrel

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5 min read Last Updated : Jul 24 2020 | 10:25 PM IST

If ever there was a political partnership poisoned by mutual mistrust and loathing from day one, it was the forced harnessing of Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and his sacked deputy Sachin Pilot in Rajasthan to a single yoke. This disastrous mesalliance ― sold as a productive pairing of the Congress Party’s Old Guard and Youth Brigade ― was thought up as a compromise by the mother-and-son team of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, the party’s main managers.

If an image is worth a thousand words, there is a moment on stage at Rahul’s pre-election Jaipur rally in August 2018, when he is

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