a frontrunner to become PM. On the day of the Parliamentary board meeting, a news leak led agencies to prematurely report that X was the new PM. They quickly killed the story once VP Singh was revealed to be the man. This entire charade had been crafted by ex-INC man Y, who was called the modern day Chanakya. He pushed X to fan the rumours, just to fool Chandra Shekhar, VP Singh’s rival, who’d agreed to pull out of the race in favour of X. Chandra Shekhar’s shocked expression when X refused the PM post in favour of VP Singh, showed the perfection of Y’s game. Who were X and Y? 12