INDIA Bloc changes the game, emerges as strong Opposition against BJP-led NDA
INDIA bloc has become a success experiment and the main national Opposition bloc within a year of its launch In Patna in June last year. The coming together of the INDIA allies, besides their ideological and political opposition to the BJP, is also a story of how the leaders of the Congress and many important regional parties, facing unprecedented political and administrative offensive from the Centre and the relentless actions of the central investigating agencies, were forced into joining hands by burying their turf and ego issues to launch a united resistance and fight back against the BJP and the Modi government.
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As the BJP-led NDA has just managed to get a simple majority, with the saffron party losing its own majority this time, the INDIA bloc is bound to up its ante with some even emboldened to explore realignments with some NDA allies for a larger anti-BJP formation and even a government making bid.
For an alliance that has had quite a bumpy ride since its Patna launch –– with its original anchor Nitish Kumar himself deserting it mid-way –– Friday’s show was quite an impressive leap forward. This, despite the fact that the alliance, taking in the internal contradictions, limited itself to only possible levels of coordination without a common stated agenda or not much across the states’ joint campaign and by skirting the tricky issues of the leadership by not projecting a challenger to PM Modi.
