India: the sum of the parts is greater than the whole

The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) deferred the presentation of the Union budget for 2012-13 to incorporate, in its calculation, the favourable political fallout of the just-concluded round of elections to the state assemblies, particularly in Uttar Pradesh. In the light of the outcome—contrary to the rosy computations put out by Congress groupies— there is no gainsaying that the UPA miscalculated; worse, its consummate defeat has given wind to the idea of a new political alliance.

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