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This was, in a sense, the revenge of the 'aam aadmi', the faceless Indian for whom the vote is a weapon of last resort, their only way of rejecting any abuse of state power.
Rahul Gandhi has given the BJP major worries. To counter him, the right wing could now aggressively take up temple politics. But that spells doom for India's institutions.