The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had everything going for
it: virtually unlimited funds, an incomparable organisation and cadre, a
helpful Election Commission, opposition leaders in jail while its own mascot
that is Narendra Modi was everywhere—from a hologram with thousand
manifestations to a physical presence crisscrossing the country in corporate
jets—embodying the message, and making an election of 543 MPs a personal
referendum on the crafted propaganda of one man. Then in the 18th
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