Desperate and divisive

While the Congress will no doubt be dismayed by its internal reports that it will at best win 60 to 65 seats in the Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the admission is good news for those who have been hoping that the party’s communal agenda of blatantly appeasing the Muslim voters in the State will fail for the sake of secular politics. The Congress has turned the election into a virtual referendum on its grand pro-Muslim promises to the virtual exclusion of any other — and more important — issues that should have featured in public discourse and influenced the poll outcome.

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