The logjam in internal politics of India continues to make new records with the washout of yet another Parliament session that ended on Dec. 23. The Narendra Modi government finds itself boxed in by an opposition, which is numerically far too weaker. And yet the events of past one week show that Modi has learned virtually no lessons in managing the opposition since his resounding defeat in Bihar last month.

Indian polity has reached dangerous proportions of cynicism and political vendetta like never before. No, this is not a trend, which started with the advent of the Modi government.

The trend is this: An inimical relationship between the government and the opposition. The trend is of grudge politics. India may well congratulate itself for being a temple of democracy, which it has been for decades but the fact is that this temple is being desecrated a bit too often of late.

The ground reality in today’s Indian politics is that the government-opposition relations have not become tense or unfriendly, but have become downright inimical. My angel is your demon; your success is my failure and vice versa. This is what the government and the opposition have been saying to each other, not since the advent of the Modi government in May 2014 but a decade before that.

Nothing could be a bigger testimony to the precarious and precipitous government-opposition relations than the events that rocked the Indian politics last week: The National Herald newspaper case and the Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) case — both corruption cases, the first one allegedly against the main opposition party, the Congress; and the second one against Modi’s Man Friday Arun Jaitley, the finance minister of the country.

In the first case, the Gandhis — Congress president Sonia and her deputy in the party and son Rahul — were made to appear before a trial court in an alleged corruption case in the National Herald newspaper case.

Well, the heavens did not shake when the powerful Gandhis appeared before the court for a seven-minute hearing before the trial court after which they got bail.

The Modi government was not able to win a perception war against the Congress. On the other hand, the Congress did not fly away with glory after its top leadership was bailed out. BJP leader and Union Minister Prakash Javdekar twisted the knife when he remarked that the Gandhis should not be rejoicing because they had got bail, not a medal.

Yes, it is true that the Gandhis have themselves to blame for the fact that their Congress party allowed the matters to run this close that the party’s top brass had to personally appear before the trial court. It only shows the political bankruptcy of the grand old party to allow an alleged criminal matter reach such a dire state wherein its top leadership had to appear a trial court in a corruption scandal of over $750 million.

Simultaneously, another government-opposition story came to the fore when Aam Aadmi Party mounted a frontal attack on Jaitley for an alleged corruption case against the cricket body of Delhi, which he presided between 2000 and 2013.

The two cases showed how the relations between the government and the opposition had plummeted at a time when the Modi government was looking forward to a breakthrough to push his ambitious reforms in the Parliament.

This brings us to the crux of the matter: The government-opposition ties, which have been experiencing a free fall since the Modi government took over.

As far as the Congress party is concerned, it has been in a sulking mode and has been playing a grudge. Arch with the government. The single most important agenda of the Congress is to ensure that the Modi government is not allowed any political heft and the government eventually falls of its own weight of under-performance.

In the second case involving AAP, again the narrative is the extent to which the ruling party in New Delhi has fallen apart with the ruling party of Delhi.

All said and done, this is a dangerous recipe for Modi. He needs to quickly learn his political lessons post-Bihar, which evidently he has not.

The inherent message for Modi is this: You can’t push the country on the path of economic growth till you have a working relationship with the opposition. There are no elections of state assembles for the next six months —a rarity in Indian politics.

If Modi wants the country to go on a path of economic growth and prosperity, he needs to look within and mend his relations with the opposition.