Nobody in Modi’s party made a case against the border deal. Then BJP chief Rajnath Singh even endorsed it. But they’d still block it in Parliament. This was mostly owed to the power struggle within the party. Would Modi then weigh in the larger national interest, get his party to relent and accept the deal? Even the Bangladesh High Commissioner then had made a visit to Ahmedabad, seeking his good offices. Modi didn’t intervene then, but probably indicated that he would pick up the thread once he came to power. In just over a year of him as Prime Minister,...