
If the Congress cannot or will not make consequential decisions for the nation, its successors might me less constrained. Just as Rao’s decision to blink in December 1995 allowed Vajpayee to get all the nuclear credit in May 1998, the UPA’s failure today will be some one else’s victory down the road.
The writer is a Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore