India, March 26 -- Voters are set to cast their ballots to elect their preferred political alliance to power in just 23 days from now. This is a monumental election by every count and one with an unprecedented impact on polity, the aspirational society and the fate of important parties. The Bharatiya Janata Party's fabled poll machinery that works tirelessly round the year is gaining rapid momentum.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has traversed the vast lengths and breadths of the country, visiting temples, meeting voters and expressing confidence that his National Democratic Alliance government will get more than 400 seats in the Lok Sabha.

Forget campaigning in full force, the Congress, which is primarily responsible for the fate of the ...