WHILE in Varanasi to file his nomination papers for the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Narendra Modi, then the Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial nominee, had declared with his characteristic bravado, “I have not come here on my own. The Comptroller and Auditor General’s 2017 report titled “Performance Audit of the Rejuvenation of River Ganga” revealed deficiencies in financial management, planning, …