Key Points
What has brought opposition parties together and forced the Congress to come down from its high horse and treat other parties as equals is the allure of the majority anti-Modi vote..
Now with several former enemies, the Congress and the AAP, for instance, coming together in an alliance, the regional parties may not be able to retain all their loyal vote, which can go to the strongest prime-ministerial face...
The Congress may plan to escape Modi's Congress-Mukt Bharat assault by allying with other opposition parties but will that be acceptable to its own voters?..
That helped Modi not to position himself against myriad regional parties with entrenched vote banks, thus creating space for the BJP among those voters as they got polarised along the Modi-Rahul battle lines...
An alliance which is formed on the sole idea of removing Modi would need, besides favourable caste arithmetic, issues which convince voters that the allied parties would indeed be better performers than Modi...
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