Opposition parties

Missed Call

Rajeev Deshpande

Internal drift and worn-out themes have shrunk Congress and kept the party from capitalising on the Lok Sabha results while a defining idea to counter BJP still eludes the Opposition

Feeding the Fault Lines

PR Ramesh

India could end up paying a high price for the Opposition’s political opportunism and exploitation of contentious issues from caste to lateral entry in government

National Discourse

Virendra Kapoor

The ruling party seems to have won half the battle without a vote being cast

A Muddled Message

Ullekh NP

The squabbling opposition alliance poses little threat to the ruling coalition

I.N.D.I.A. and Its Discontents

PR Ramesh

An Opposition alliance has unseated a strong incumbent at the Centre only when it has had a promise to sell and a charismatic leader. The anti-Modi alliance has neither while its own contradictions threaten to pull it apart