‘Bit of a moment for Rahul Gandhi’: new dawn for

INDIA alliance prevents Modi’s BJP from forming majority but analysts say keeping it united will be difficult

In the months building up to India’s election, many pundits had already written obituaries for the country’s beleaguered political opposition.

Over his decade in power, the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) government has stood accused of using the full might of the state against political opponents, with agencies harassing and jailing opposition leaders or intimidating them into switching sides en masse.