To strike the right deal
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you ask me, personally I am against alliances,” said a senior Congress leader last week and he is in a position to take the critical decisions on the party’s alliances with regional outfits, and influence both Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi.
His logic: The party has to be built up, if
Rahul Gandhi is to takeover.”Meanwhile,” he added, ”if we cannot
form a government, we can sit in the Opposition till 2014.” The problem
with that logic is its timing. Party building should have started on
Day One and not left till the last day.Once the heat and dust
have settled and days and months have gone by, what the UPA rule would
be remembered for is the RTI which has empowered the citizen, and its
impact is yet to fully unfold, and NREGA which ensures 100 days of
employment for poor families all over the country.These laws
were the by-product of a partnership between civil society and the
government, pushed by the National Advisory Council (NAC), which was a
unique experiment Sonia Gandhi embarked upon but abandoned because it
became a victim of the ‘office of profit’ controversy.
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