The future of INDIA

The Congress will need to be more accommodative

At its last meeting on September 1 in Mumbai, the Opposition bloc comprising parties under the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc had “resolved” to initiate seat-sharing arrangements “immediately”, concluding it at the earliest in “a collaborative spirit of give and take”; organise joint public rallies across the country on issues of public concern; and coordinate communications, media strategies, and campaigns. The Congress, the biggest and the only party in the alliance with a nationwide electoral footprint — also the leading player from the alliance in the five state Assembly polls held in November — reneged on all. The