Things are looking rather bleak for the Third Front, one must say. Brave noises are being made, and alliances are being cobbled together. The pessimist might quibble that that's their weakness right there, that the alliances are fragile, and will not survive a post-election buyout (er, realignment). But that doesn't worry the Hatter as much.
The fly in the third front ointment is the absence of a Gandhi.
Now that the BJP has shrewdly gone and got themselves a Gandhi bahu and scion of their own, it's clear to all - especially, readers of the Times Of India - that it's all about whose Gandhi trumps whose. Does the intemperate rabble-rouser win over the restrained but perennial-foot-in-mouth-er? Or does the sheer weight of three Gandhis outnumber two? The one thing that all learned commentators now agree that a Gandhi comes with incalculable political benefits.
It is, if you get my drift, all about "issues".
It's time Comrade Karat faced up to reality. A Jayalalitha or a Patnaik may come and go, but where is he going to find a Gandhi?
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