The farmers’ stir appears to have offered hope to the motley Opposition groups to attempt and aggressively take on the properly-entrenched ruling celebration. Even as the Punjab farmers rough it out in the biting cold on the borders of the capital, opposition leaders devise stratagems to confront the Modi Government.
NCP leader Sharad Pawar’s help to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her on-going confrontation with the Centre could be a precursor to the formation of a joint front with the single objective of difficult the Prime Minister. The 80-year-old Maharashtra leader can’t be faulted for producing a single final bid to front an all-celebration anti-BJP grouping. Such fronts with adverse agendas and small ideological and personnel cohesion and coordination have produced small headway in the previous. It is unlikely to meet a improved fate this time, specifically when its core, the Congress, is weak and quick decaying.
Of course, the confrontation amongst the Central government and the West Bengal government is unfortunate, reflecting the refusal of each to adhere to the spirit of federalism. But instigation from Pawar and other folks such as Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel can only aggravate the tension, not lessen it. At least in such official, sensitive matters, outdoors interests ought to be kept out.