Tuesday, November 20, 2012

No permanent friends or foes

Left is peeved with Amar Singh for taking SP closer to Congress

British politics during its colonial era of the 19th and 20th centuries, revolved around one underlying dictum: there are no permanent friends or enemies in politics. The only thing permanent is self –interest. Amar Singh and his relationship with the Left parties fall into this hoary category.

If the inexplicable opposition of the Left parties to the Congress has become the hall-mark of contemporary Indian politics since the last four years, it is now the turn of the Samajwadi Party to put its relations with the Left parties at stake.

The main point of disagreement between the two allies has been the Women’s Reservation Bill which was recently tabled in the Parliament and had the Left’s support. SP leaders are dismayed that despite private assurances and their intense opposition to the bill, the Left supported it.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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