Bardhan and other leftist leaders should go a little slow in projecting someone else as the next Prime Minister. They kept Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh on their heads just to provent BJP from coming to power. The history of Congress is full of manipulation, cheating and what not and after four and half years when the Common Minimum Programme was replaced with Sonia-Manmohan Singh Programme, the leftists realised this. By projecting Mayawati or someone else, they will commit the same mistakes. What is important for the leftists is to go back to their old credibility, I would say, pre-Harkishensingh Surjeet era, strengthen all the frontal organisations and extend their influence beyond the three states. A decision was taken in Salkia Plenum to spread influence in Hindi belt but nothing concrete happened. They have wasted four and half years signing the Congress and Sonia glory and abusing BJP. The time has come for them to realise now that their enemy is not BJP but their own calculations and miscalculations
