In the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) architecture, the organisation and its governments are equally positioned. One half is usually not allowed to dominate the other, although the structure was thrown off balance in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s time, when the organisation called the shots where the coalition government was in trouble. Relations panned out more evenly under Prime Minister Narendra Modi because he is rooted in the organisation and recognised the futility of setting the government against the party. “Modi knows that his government draws political capital from the elections that are won. If the party is enfeebled, we can’t win.