
The Congress will have some valid complaints too. That there is nobody senior available — and mandated — in the BJP that they can speak to in confidence. That the party is still punch-drunk and can’t focus on its role in opposition. Or that Mulayam and the “new” (but same old) third front believe in such vicious, personalised politics that it is impossible to have a healthy conversation with them. But, at the end of the day, the government is the Congress Party’s. And it is for the Congress to set its goals for the remaining two years and to take a call on whether it is better off in this situation of total breakdown, or if a course-correction is called for.
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