Abki baar 90 paar?

An additional 30 seats for the BJP won't make any difference to the strength and quality of government. Thirty fewer, however, will have several substantive consequences

Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has just given us the cue to look at the prospects in the ongoing general elections in a teasingly counterintuitive manner: By focusing on the Congress party’s likely numbers instead of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s).

In a detailed interview with ThePrint, Mr Reddy said his party only needed 125 seats to form the next government, while the BJP would need a minimum of 250.

I know, I know, so many of you are triggered already. From where will he get these numbers? What kind of fantasy is it? Please stay with me for a bit. This