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Grace Marks Alliance
CHENNAI Kangayam R.
Narasim­han: That H.D. Kumaraswamy
has provided a broad platform for
Opposition unity at his swearing-in in
Bangalore last month shows that it is
going to be Modi Vs all in the 2019 Lok
Sabha polls (Saffron Knights, May 28).
Both the BJP and the Congress have,
hopefully, learned salutary lessons
from the Karnataka polls. While the
dev­elopment gives the BJP a chance to
shed its arrogance, the Congress got
finishing classes on coalition politics.
MARUTHANCODE (TN) G. David
Milton: The BJP was unethical in its
bid to grab power in Karnataka; hence
the whole strategy blew up in the par-
ty’s face. The Supreme Court’s order to
conduct a floor test in a day’s time and
live-telecast the proceedings enabled
the Congress and JD(S) to outsmart the
BJP and pre-empt any subversion of
dem­ocracy. The self-inflicted setback
must have come as a rude awakening to
the BJP, which otherwise is habituated
to elbowing out rival parties and steam-
roll to power. The party bel­ieves its esp­
ousal of Hindu nationalism gives it the
right to rule India. It is no more ‘a party
with a difference’ as it once claimed, or
maybe the only difference it has is its
espousal of rabid Hindutva. .
Fortuitously the head-on clash between
the BJP and Congress-JD(S) has had a
good fallout: fillip to Opposition unity.
Post-Karnataka, the country’s
Opposition parties seem to have gained
the confidence to say, “Yes, we can”.
BURDWAN Chanchal Nandy: A
post-poll alliance between Congress
and JD(S) was unexpected, shameful
and uncalled-for. They had fought the
elections with different—and almost
opposing—agendas. The JD(S) had
campaigned extensively to end the
Siddaramaiah’s Congress rule. For the
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