Political Top 10: The supremos
"Once you have built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it." So said P.J. O'Rourke, the celebrated American political satirist. As Indian politics heads towards the summer of 2018, the nation edges closer to testing the fragility of political power once again. The dominant political party of the moment, the BJP, is in government directly or indirectly in as many as 18 of India's 29 states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah plan to extend that footprint further- they have found a hungry general driven by revenge in the Northeast in Himanta Biswa Sarma. But the assembly elections in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh will determine whether the empire continues its expansionist streak or begins to wane.
