The Cameras Chose Rahul. Politics Chose Modi
By the time Rahul Gandhi was bundled into a police bus outside the Prime Minister's residence, television had found its hero. By the time Arvind Kejriwal finished accusing Congress of hijacking the students' movement, politics had found its winner. It wasn't Rahul Gandhi. It certainly wasn't Arvind Kejriwal. It was Narendra Modi. Politics is a strange business. It is not always won by the man who speaks the loudest or protests the hardest. More often, it is won by the man whose opponents cannot decide whether to fight him or fight each other. Tuesday was one such day. Rahul Gandhi did what every Opposition leader dreams of doing—he dominated the news cycle. The images were irresistible: the march, the sit-in, the scuffle with the police, the detention. For a few hours, the Congress looked like the principal challenger to the BJP. But while television was busy replaying those visuals, something far more consequential was unfolding. Arvind Kejriwal's party wasn'...
