Hyderabad, March 21 -- The massive rally of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance in Mumbai on March 17 and in Patna on March 3 exploded the media-created myth that only the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party can display such a show of strength in the post-2014 era. What is most alarming for the ruling party is that these two mobilizations had taken place when the Congress, Shiv Sena, Nationalist Congress Party and Rashtriya Janata Dal-the main organizers- were not only out of power but had been deprived of all the resources. Apart from this all these four parties had either faced split or desertion.

The Patna rally smashed the image created by the Fourth Estate that RJD's Lalu Prasad had always organized such huge rallies when...