I reiterate there is no guarantee in life. Just as there exists a possibility that the UPA and Left will come together post-poll, there exists the possibility of Mayawati and Jayalaithaa tying up with the BJP though they repeaetdly ditched the BJP.
While we cannot forecast the future, we can anticipate future by extrapolating current trends and plan accordingly. This is called vision. In the 80s and 90s, the equity market differentiated old economy and new economy(internet,IT). So old economy stocks and business lost their market valuation. The Ambanis, Tatas and Mittals began to use old valuation to buy companies cheap and expand capacities. Today they are laughing all the way to the bank while the fate of new economy stocks hang in the balance.
This is called vision. This MMS demonstrated he had in good measure in the 90's. Then you knickerwallahs and commies ganged up to call him a US stooge. A decade later, his steps turned visionary. So the trust in his judgment in the field of energy security.
On the other hand we cannot trust the judgment of Karat who sided with China in the Indo-China war or Advani who eulogized Jinnah as a patriot, nationalist and secularist. These are men with stunted vision. One fettered by blind ideology, and the other conditioned by his greed to occupy the PM's chair.
