The lack of a vociferous roar of disapproval over the Congress party’s nimble-footed traipse in Tamil Nadu into the arms of Vijay’s fledgling TVK, abandoning a decades-old ally, is more than a local tactical shift; it is a virtual admission of the INDIA bloc’s peculiar and endless elasticity.

Congress shifts alliances in Tamil Nadu

Perhaps it is a survival instinct thing for each of the different parts of the bloc. Yet, this ability to adjust to electoral mathematics seems to have left the alliance overall in much less political space than it previously occupied.

The DMK’s wounded yelp of being backstabbed is entirely understandable, considering the two parties have been together now for ten years, looking more like a durable marriage than one of convenience; in the partnership, it survived........

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