Speculation rife about advance Lok Sabha polls

New Delhi is abuzz with speculation that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to advance the Lok Sabha polls by at least six months, if not a year. Not just the Opposition, but Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders also are peddling such theories. Several reasons are being given, the foremost being the BJP would suffer if it were to wait until April 2019. The Modi government has failed to deliver on its promise of “better days” and with each passing day will only lose support, or so the argument goes. Some in the BJP believe that a campaign around Ram