Our political history tells us this has never worked.
A united Opposition does work in some specific, limited situations, especially in the states.
But never as some brilliant pan-national collection of diverse interests with no ideological or political core, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Satya Pal Malik’s decision to reveal the “truth” about the Pulwama attack will be examined elsewhere, but his decision to part ways with Modi is part of an old socialist ethos of immense ideological fluidity.
No discussion about the first 20 years of independent India can be complete without talking about B R Ambedkar – an economist and jurist who became more of a social reformer than political.
Alargely unanticipated but significant transformation in India’s post-Independence polity has been the emergence, exponential growth and near hegemonic position attained by the BJP. If the Congress had an overarching influence over the polity for over four decades since 1947, the BJP is set to