A look at the Bill ruckus "Backward"
Their strong-arm tactics on the Women's Reservation Bill have enabled Lok Tantrik Morcha leaders Laloo Yadav and Mulayam Yadav to give a strange twist to the discourse on empowerment of the deprived sections of society. By blocking the legislation without enough MPs in the Lok Sabha to move even an ordinary motion and painting it as an "anti-Social Justice legislation", they have created convulsions in parties like the BJP and the Congress.

Bourgeois Cong lesser evil -- CPM
The CPM appears to have clinched its political strategy of adopting a softer line towards the Congress while waiting out the fall of the BJP government and shoring up an emerging secular front. In a definite shift away from the policy of "equidistance from the twin enemies" the Congress and the BJP, the party's central committee has decided to train their guns more aggressively on the BJP, but not going so far as to actively precipitate the fall of the BJP-led government.

Rally around -- Swamy to Jaya, Sonia
Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has urged Congress president Sonia Gandhi and AIADMK chief J Jayalalitha to join hands immediately so as to prevent "representatives of RSS fascists" from hoisting the tricolour at Red Fort on independence day. Swamy referred to the rise in prices, "complete mismanagement" of international relations and VHP statements on Ayodhya.

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