I.N.D.I.A bloc collapse is inevitable

The ongoing campaign for the Delhi Assembly elections has contributed to the ever-increasing differences within the I.N.D.I.A bloc, which appears to be cracking up with most of the parties willingly backing the AAP at the cost of the Congress.

- Pankaj Vohra

While it was always known that all was not well within the alliance, with regional parties fearing the dominance of the grand old party, it would have been difficult to imagine that the front constituted to battle the saffron brigade would collapse so soon. By endorsing AAP over the Congress, partners such the Samajwadi Party and the Trinamool Congress have, in one way, helped in fulfilling the objective of the BJP, which never wanted this alliance to succeed.

In fact, it is well known that many of the I.N.D.I.A bloc members fear the Congress more than the BJP, since they feel that if the grand old party were to revive, it would be doing so by reclaiming the political space, currently occupied by smaller outfits.

The gloves are off in Delhi and the Congress and the AAP are at each other's throats even though Arvind Kejriwal, in some of his interviews, has refused to talk about Rahul Gandhi and his stance on the plea that his party did not matter at all in the Delhi polls. This could be true since in most places, the contest is between the AAP and the BJP, with the Congress showing signs of revival in just 15 odd constituencies.