There she was in an off-white salwar kameez, not in the pink for which she’s been so derided. Upper-caste, mostly male journalists have sneered at her often: ‘oh look at those birthday cakes’, ‘oh note those diamonds’. But as ‘federal front’ leaders lined up on stage for Karnataka CM H D Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in, Mayawati took a central place among them. She beamed. That wide flashing smile that lights up her face was back.
The BJP has set its template for the 2019 general elections as, Modi vs who? The ruling party believes that such is the power and popularity of the Modi persona that compared to him opposition leaders are mere pygmies, a gaggle of non-persons, an unflattering khichdi coalition of Read More
