Spectre of Third Front over Congress and BJP

The language of Indian politics, it would seem, has acquired a new lexicon. Victory is scarcely about winning anymore. It is about how badly the other player lost. So the Congress celebrates the fact that the BJP got lesser number of seats in Punjab and Uttarakhand, and the BJP trumpets the fact that the Congress lost more badly in Uttar Pradesh. Of the 690 seats for which elections were fought, the BJP and Congress—together—won just 268 seats. Truth is the biggest losers of Mandate 2012 are the national parties, the Congress and the BJP.

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