
The third front would, however, continue to manoeuvre. After all, losers are more anxious to turn the tables. Its strategy at the moment is directed towards becoming one of the two main fronts. Party politics literature informs us that incumbents would find it difficult to counter such strategy and the only alternative is to employ heresthetical manipulation themselves. Though the spectre of mid-term polls has dissipated, timing the next general election will still be the decisive trick.
The writer teaches political science in Panjab University, Chandigarh