OPINION | One Protest, Many Fault Lines: Can INDIA Bloc Survive Till 2029?

It is seldom that the visuals of an opposition protest take over the day's headlines. For the past two days, they have. Marches against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, and against the Bharatiya Janata Party government, which the opposition holds responsible for him, have crowded out the rest.

The pictures are of Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in the grip of the Delhi Police, and of the resistance that followed: the raised flag, the sit-in, the refusal to disperse. Those frames are everywhere, on social media and across the media…