New Delhi, May 10 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's victory in the coming parliamentary elections is presented by his 'bhakts' as an inevitability that cannot be challenged by the opposition parties. After all, the carefully crafted dominant narrative and organised propaganda claim that "there is no alternative" to Modi. For those who have seen the era of coalition governments, it was not such a catastrophe as suggested by those who see great merit in the leadership of a muscular Modi. They shudder with horror as they ask the question: Do you think the country can afford to have Rahul Gandhi, Chandrababu Naidu, Mayawati, or Sharad Pawar, as the country's next prime minister?

For those who are not blindly enamored of the eccentricities of...