After a decade of ruling over India unchallenged, the Hindutva saffron flag is starting to lose its luster. Despite winning a third term, Narendra Modi’s Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) witnessed a strong and unexpected resurgence from its subdued opponents. This city, and this incident are the lynchpin of modern BJP politics, yet that same city rejected the party. In other constituencies, popular Sikh and Kashmiri leaders, often victimized by the law, have be elected to the Lok Sabha. In the succinct words of Rahul Gandhi, Modi’s main opponent, “The voters have punished BJP.
