The Today’s Chanakya, boasting of being on the dot each time, had expected the BJP tally to go up to even as 146 and the Congress to come down to as little as even 36 seats in a House of 182. That’s when, in 1995 Gujarat assembly polls, the Congress won 45 seats. That was its nadir. Even in 2002, when Modi was riding the Hindutva wave post Godhra and won 127 seats, the Congress got 51 seats. Since then its tally has only been going up. Of course never to come anywhere close to the benchmark of 93. But the Congress plus allies are only ten short of the majority cut-off this time round and that no doubt is a remarkable achievement for Rahul Gandhi dismissed by political analysts and columnists as insincere, incompetent Pappu, out to drown the Congress in an abyss. After all Gujarat was and is still considered the impregnable fortress of Modi and the laboratory of Hindutuva.