True. Everybody in India seem to have forgotten how general elections work. From PDFites to journalists, and everybody else. How many Indians reading this will vote for Modi in the elections? None of you, except the ones who are registered in his constituency, and support him. The rest of you will vote for the representatives from your constituency. In the end, if BJP can get 272 seats, or form an alliance of 272, then Modi will be PM. That's it. I don't know why everybody is going on about being pro-modi or anti-modi. It is about parties and coalitions, people. Not about individual politicians.
I wonder what Modi would do if he wins (most possibly), but BJP doesn't - will he then sit in parliament as an opposition MP, or would he rather remain CM of gujarat? Perhaps they will make him leader of the oppn, in such a scenario.
If I may use my crystal ball to predict, this is going to be one election with a very fractured mandate, with nobody being able to muster a stable coalition. There will be plenty of post election horse trading.