Choosing change

Gagan Thapa’s rise through the ranks was neither a fluke nor was it blessed by someone at the top.

The independent voter! That bane of psephologists, the fence-sitter, the one who does not know whether they are coming or going, and with that metaphorical smirk that keeps everyone guessing. That is what I used to think of this tribe until I went over my own record to realise, I was squarely one of them.