Bickering in INDIA bloc after J’khand debacle

CPI(M-L) rubbishes Cong’s charge of cross-voting in RS elections

- MUKESH RANJAN

THE defeat of the Congress candidate in the Rajya Sabha election, despite the ruling alliance enjoying a numerical advantage in the Jharkhand Assembly, has triggered bitter bickering within the INDIA bloc.

What should have been a routine victory instead exposed distrust, competing ambitions and unresolved tensions among coalition partners, with accusations of cross-voting and betrayal flying across party lines. The result has become more than a poll setback for the Congress; it has emerged as a test of the bloc’s internal unity.