India is not a two-party system, yet national campaigns repeatedly become a BJP-versus-Congress story. Why does a multi-party democracy keep producing this binary frame? Darshikam examines the political incentives, voter behaviour and evidence behind the question.

Congress governed India for much of the post-independence period. BJP eventually transformed the national contest. How did that shift happen? Darshikam examines the political incentives, voter behaviour and evidence behind the question.