Not if, but how far.

"Just before 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which are scheduled to begin from April 19, once again Prime Minister is having a 'surgical strike' moment of sorts." ET.  On 26 February 2019, just before the election, Indian warplanes supposedly bombed terrorist training camps inside Pakistan. "Open source satellite imagery has revealed that no targets of consequence were hit. The following day, Pakistan shot down an Indian warplane and took its pilot Abhinandan Varrthaman, as prisoner." wikipedia. Whatever the truth, Mr Modi's party the BJP won a majority of 303 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. wikipedia. "This time it is a viral news report in the British newspaper Guardian that talks about how India got 20 people killed inside Pakistan over the past three months in targeted assassinations. While the government has denied having any role in the killings, a lot of Indians on social media are feeling proud of this 'achievement'." While vigorously denying these allegations as "false and malicious" propaganda, but not wanting to lose the electoral bonus, "India will enter Pakistan to kill anyone who escapes over the border after trying to carry out terrorists activities in the country, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told CNN News18." Reuters. A kind of 'nudge-nudge, wink-wink' signal to Bhakts, who live in an alternate reality, (DH) and believe that Mr Modi is a modern day Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders (Britannica). According to the craven supine media, contemptuously labeled the 'godi media' (wikipedia), Mr Modi has already won the election. However, if elected, "The Congress party, as part of its anti-corruption measures, promised to investigate 'dubious deals and schemes'. It said that it would probe demonetisation, the Rafale deal, Pegasus software, and Electoral Bonds scheme." BT. Ominously, the Congress manifesto "refrained from listing measures to curb the 'misuse' of laws like the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) which, it maintains, have been misused against political opponents, dissidents and activists." TOI. It is not just some in the BJP who will feel a chill at the thought, but the 25 opposition leaders, who have seen criminal allegations against them washed clean after joining the BJP (The Wire), may be panicking, even if confident of victory. Then, there are the civil servants. "The bureaucracy was conceived to promote and safeguard public interest." But "Today's civil servants have been subverting established systems to please the political masters," wrote Mathew John. All these people could be having nightmares about facing the PMLA and UAPA. And, since these dishonorable, corrupt individuals will be in charge of the elections Mr Modi's victory is all but guaranteed. The question now is: How far will they go?