The most important lesson is that you have to build your political proposition, and sell it yourself.
You can t leave it to the courts, media, NGOs and civil society and expect them to play the role of the Opposition.
That s precisely what Mr Modi s challengers have been doing and we know the results, notes Shekhar Gupta.
Modi believes that the Congress leadership does not have the political sagacity to undertake a course correction because of its preoccupation about not losing its current gains in the voter base, observes Shekhar Iyer.
My understanding is that by the time President Xi Jinping came for the Chennai summit [2019], he had already instructed his army to undertake the action in Galwan in the summer of 2020.