PM Narendra Modi may not yet have succeeded in breaking Balochistan away from Pakistan or getting back Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, but he has split the Congress down the middle.

The recent decision by the Centre to send high-profile, all-party teams to 32 countries as well as the European Union has deepened fault lines in the Congress so much that the rifts are now in the open.

Rahul Gandhi has predictably gone against the patriotic narrative and the tradition of the Opposition standing with the government of the day in the time of a national security crisis. He is talking Pakistan’s language, questioning Indian defence forces about the number of planes Pakistan has shot down. He has mocked and attacked S Jaishankar for damaging India’s war efforts by informing Pakistan about an attack although facts make it amply clear that India’s foreign minister did no such thing.

But this is not new for Rahul Gandhi. He has consistently spoken in China and Pakistan’s voice after India’s surgical........

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