<b>Shekhar Gupta:</b> Hanging by a sacred thread

Rahul Gandhi is playing to the BJP's Hindutva strengths. It's a blunder his dad too committed, and the party's never recovered

You never know how “young” people think these days. So we cannot be sure if a threadbare debate on his religiosity is what Rahul Gandhi desired coinciding with his elevation as party president, or if it is something that his party slipped up on. Either way, the next chapter in his politics is now scripted.

This script is written to last. It won’t end dramatically even if he bared his torso with the sacred thread, posted pictures on social media showing how he rolls it around his ear in the proper ritual gesture while going for his ablutions, or the evidence