<b>Shekhar Gupta</b>: Butterflies in the stomach

BJP's Gujarat campaign is a nervous paradox of a double-incumbent fighting like an underdog, making Gandhi Dynasty and not its own performance the issue

The “trending” questions these days are: Have you been to Gujarat? What’s your feeling from the ground? What do you sniff in the air? Is there going to be a change?
 
The first is a simple one for me to answer: No, I haven’t been to Gujarat in this campaign, at least not yet. And I do not have the olfactory powers to sniff change in the campaign air. I love dogs, but I am not one.
 
What I can do, however, is read political actions, responses, faces, utterances, shifting tactics and strategies, goal-posts, the vocabulary and grammar