The Modi government has at last had a couple of parliamentary successes with two urgent pieces of legislation covering auctions of coal and other mining leases being passed on March 20 at the end of the first part of the Budget session. That was the result of political haggling and deal making with opposition parties that Narendra Modi and his colleagues seem to have realized is more effective than the arrogant self-assuredness that came with their landslide general election victory last year.