On any other day, the town of Fatehabad in Haryana would be an unlikely venue for an opposition rally meant for national messaging. That wasn’t the case last Sunday, September 25, when leaders from a few parties united at Fatehabad on the invitation of Om Prakash Chautala, head of the Indian National Lok Dal.
Chautala had organised the event to mark the 109th birth anniversary of his father and former deputy prime minister Devi Lal. But the event was always going to be an opportunity for invitees to signal more than that. In the process, it showed signs of a fluid, and markedly uneasy, stage of pitching formations in the national opposition space.
