India’s Hindu nationalist opposition senses victory in the shoot out on Mumbai’s Marine Drive. Its own.

For months the Bharatiya Janata party has lashed the government for being soft on terror. With every bomb attack in a major city this year, the criticism has grown in intensity. As terrorists have ticked off Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Bangalore, Delhi and Guwahati, the BJP has chorused that the Congress-led government cannot protect India’s citizens and does not take national security seriously.