This was the last chance that the commie idiots had on this Earth to make a difference to Indian polity. They will not accept it but they have badly botched it up. They could have been a wonderful change agent to UPA over the last 4 years but these jokers only worried about their vote bank - which is shrinking faster than ice on the arctic. If NDA wins the next elections, they will not take Left's support and if UPA wins the next elections, they will not want to burn their fingers again. The winner will poach 2-3 parties from the losing combine to reach majority but not take Left's help. Karat / Bardhan / Raja... even if Indians are fools, they are not such big fools to give you 100 seats. You will never come this close to power in the Centre ever again. Be it NDA or UPA, the new regime will re-negotiate the nuclear deal with the new regime in the US. Nuclear deal will be implemented... either the BJP way or the Congress way.