A recent visitor to the TMC headquarters in Chennai informs me of the uneasy calm that prevails there. The atmosphere at the Sathyamurthy Bhavan is anything but euphoric,despite the party alliance with the DMK continuing. But I am sure that precisely is the reason for the sense of gloom that has gripped the TMC camp.
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We are not sure if he meant it, but TMC president G.K. Moopanar did aver that his party may even prefer to keep out of the polls, as a last option. It may not really happen, but such a statement coming from the leader of a political party claiming to have a national outlook…
Call it a jinx, call it sheer coincidence or better still call it, political reality. Even a casual observer of Tamilnadu politics would not miss the inescapable conclusion that there is something about the DMK regimes…
The demise of the UF government owing to the withdrawal of the support by the Congress is in a way a mercy killing. Having entered the internsive Care Unit the dy the Jain panel. findings were reported by the press, there was really no way the government could survive.
For once the parliamentarians of the na-lion can boast of unity. They may differ on political ideologies and may not see eye to eye on economic policies. They would have no qualms about stalling the profeedings of the august body if their writ does not run and unhesitatingly enter into wordy duets at the slightest provocatiton
It is not the first time in the recent past that the nation finds itself on the brink, The fragile coalition cobbled up in the aftermath of the 1996 polls always’ had an in built potential for col-lapse as it was just a gang-up of pare ties to prevent BJP from ruling the country
Journalist turned emissary Gopal’s reported meeting with the forest brigand Veerappan has once again caused eyebrows to be raised,especially in the context of the STF intensifying the search operations.
For those who did not doubt the veracity of the leaked version of the Jain report, its tabling in Parliament brings no surprises. This political bombshell of a report, which was ignited prematurely much to the chagrin of the UF government, had burnt itself out by the time it reached Parliament,
It is not known If the BJP atheist, But is quite possible considering that the party is now on a moral shedding spree. After UP anything is and the saffron brigade does not mince words when it keeps reminding the people of the nation the necessity to mix to Principles and real poltik.
