India, April 14 -- Opinion polls can go wrong and the elections are more than a month away in some places; that is a long time in politics and much can change.

The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be a crucial one: a sentinel event in the history of modern India that will dictate the future course of the country. The million-dollar question is whether Narendra Modi and the BJP will be returned to power to continue the changes that they have affected in the last 10 years or will an upset loss bring back a motley crowd of disparate political parties to the fore-a stale khichdi that will attempt to vindictively undo the gains of the last decade and re-establish the directionless, free for all governance that was not only taking India downhill ...