It is amusing to see how Bidwai treats a competitive electoral politics issue as a naïve Left partisan issue. In an ideal world political parties may be guided by pure ideologies and then Congress would align with other parties purely on the basis of secular political agenda. But Bidwai is forgetting that in a competitive market that is what modern Democracies are every political party is interested in enhancing ones brand, vote base and political advantage. Electoral alliances are purely driven by these political calculations and not by ideological purity. Congress is trying to drive hard its advantage, at times even at the cost of its own allies. Instead of fiddling as a junior partner with Lalu, it is taking the risk of aligning with Paswan. Anyways Congress is unlikely to get anything more even if it had sided with Lalu. So why not try counter balance Lalu within UPA? In Jharkhand it feels it has a shot with JMM so why share spoils with Lalu? Where did Pawar go in the end? Pawar and NCP do not have much future. Congress is driving hard bargain. If BJP contracts; it is all between Left and Congress. Congress is trying to stop Left occupying the space vacated by BJP.
