By March 2012, UPA’s options, electoral fortunes will shrink

Mamata Banerjee’s tantrums over the petrol price hike are unlikely to pose any serious threat to the longevity of the Manmohan Singh government, but UPA-2 has more or less run out of easy options. In UPA-1, the government reached breakpoint with its allies over the nuclear deal about a year before the general elections were due. Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi had to take a call on forsaking Left support and risking the government’s majority when time was running out for the nuclear deal.

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