As it sets out to pitch itself as the pivot of the Opposition alliance to challenge the BJP-led regime at the centre in 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Congress has to grapple with a dilemma that isn’t new to alliance-making. The puzzle that’s teasing the party is how to deal with having a two-pronged approach to potential allies at the national level, which are its main adversaries in some regions.
These are states, or even union territories, where the party finds itself in bipolar or even multi-cornered contests against the allies which it would be wooing for a broader combine at the centre. This is a situation that the party has to work around as it contends with the CPI(M) in Kerala and West Bengal, AAP in Delhi and Punjab, and the TMC in West Bengal as well as in some states of the North East.
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