When Parliament reconvenes for the monsoon session, the most important political battle may not be fought across the treasury and opposition benches but within the opposition itself.
A dramatic split in the Trinamool Congress, the collapse of the Congress-DMK alliance, and fresh uncertainty surrounding Shiv Sena (UBT) have together altered the parliamentary arithmetic that underpins the INDIA bloc. The changes are significant enough to potentially strengthen the Narendra Modi government's hand on some of its most ambitious legislative goals, including a possible revival of the contentious delimitation-linked women's reservation bill that failed earlier this year.
