UPA-I’s high-growth results were only a NDA hangover

We are at a cusp. It may be that the Congress plan for Pranab Mukherjee will succeed and the UPA-II will lose its most hard-working minister. Or it may be that Mulayam Singh and Mamata Banerjee have a point and it should be Dr Manmohan Singh who should be elevated to the Presidency and Pranab should be spared for more hard work. The Congress may lament its old ways and make him PM at last; 28 years too late but, then, better late than not at all. Or old habits may die hard and Rahul Gandhi may step in as PM after Dr Singh, leaving Pranab in a limbo.

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