Spotlight on INDIA
As against a tightly organised Bharatiya Janata Party, the INDIA alliance is a bundle of contradictions. The failure of talks between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress over seat sharing in Madhya Pradesh and the war of words between the two parties betray a lack of consensus on core issues. The ideology of the parties in the bloc varies from ultra-left to left to centre to centre-right. The alliance needs to be more inclusive and cohesive to be able to take on the BJP juggernaut.
Kangayam R. Narasimhan,
