PM as Achilles’ Heel: Sonia’s script went wrong in 2004

In the end, it was Mamata Banerjee who called Sonia Gandhi’s bluff, and not the other way round. Till late in the evening on Tuesday, Congress ministers were talking soft on the assumption that the Bengal Tigress would merely withdraw her ministers from the UPA government, but she went the whole hog and pulled out of the alliance. Sure, there is still a small chance that Mamata could return, but by pitching her demands very high – complete withdrawal of FDI in retail...

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