As I watched another session of Parliament wasted because of the Opposition parties’ street-fighting style of debate, an odd conspiracy theory occurred to me. Could the Congress party be acting as a secret agent for Narendra Modi? Or are its leaders too removed from reality to notice that every time they shout slogans when they should be making laws, they harm themselves and not the Prime Minister? He sits quietly with a smug half-smile on his face and watches until the sloganeering gets so out of control that both Houses end up adjourned. Again. And again, session after session.

According to ‘vital stats’ sent to me by a think tank with a very long name, the Lok Sabha functioned for 29% of its scheduled time and the Rajya Sabha for 34%. And, while his MPs were disrupting Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition wandered off to Bihar on yet another ‘yatra’, perhaps forgetting that some very important laws were being passed without debate. It should come as no surprise when I tell you that there are serious political pundits in Delhi who say, wearily wiping the sweat from their foreheads, that Modi’s greatest asset is Rahul Gandhi.

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