3 questions for Modi's rivals

Can Modi be defeated? If yes, how? Is anyone trying to defeat him? These are key questions opposition leaders hoping to take on Modi in 2024 need to answer

Returning to national politics after a sizeable “Afghan-Taliban” break, we raise three questions. With the caution that the first two will be irrelevant unless we square up to the third first. Here we go:

• Is Narendra Modi beatable, or unbeatable, sort of cast-in titanium as I might have described him sometimes, not merely Teflon coated?
• If he’s beatable, what will it take to defeat him? A face, a slogan, a manifesto, an ideology, or all of the above?
• Is anyone even trying to beat him?

Hand on your heart, face up to the third first. Who among the opposition maharathis is working on defeating