Thus with the BJP slowing down on Hindutva and the Left calming down on liberalisation, there is far more common political space than one could have anticipated a decade ago. Thus the alliances that will be formed before the Lok Sabha election and those after the results may not be the same. Everybody will “realign” to suit the need of the hour. Numbers and not ideology will decide the alliances. All the parties now have only one aim — to somehow come to power. All of them appear to agree with the late Deng Xiaoping that it does not matter what the colour of the cat is as long as it catches mice.
The writer is editor, ‘Loksatta’ kumar.ketkar@expressindia.com
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