The recent dramatic developments in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh - a lightning change of Chief Minister in Congress ruled Punjab and the outrageously tragic incidents in Lakhimpur Kheri in U.P. in which at least eight people were killed including four farmers run over by an SUV -, has beckoned Rahul Gandhi’s anti-BJP fight to higher levels. Undoubtedly, Rahul Gandhi, former Congress President and elected to the Lok Sabha from Wayanad in Kerala in the 2019 elections, has been consistently sharpening his ideological criticisms of the Hindutva policies espoused by BJP and the Sangh Parivar. Rahul Gandhi, it may be recalled, had even made a bold speech in July to Congress party workers, wherein he minced no words that those ‘scared’ of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of the erstwhile Jan Sangh and now BJP, may leave Congress, underscoring the damage done to various democratic institutions by the ‘systematic infiltration’ of the RSS. In this larger backdrop, Rahul Gandhi, joined by his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadhra, as the star campaigner of the Congress, despite not holding any formal office in the party, - during the recent Assembly elections and looking to the 2024 Lok Sabha polls-, has demolished...