June , 2008
SP-Congress Marriage: A Knotty Affair
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"We have 272 and growing." This was the statement of Congress President Sonia Gandhi in 1999 outside the portals of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The prospects of yet another Congress-led government were getting brighter. Till one man decided to play spoilsport. The school teacher pehelwan of Uttar Pradesh, Mulayam Singh yadav. The socialist leader made a U-turn almost overnight, deciding to listen to his inner voice and withdrawing his support to the Congress. Since that evening, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge. And Mulayam Singh Yadav is back in business in the corridors of power of the capital. In 1998 he was the spoiler; in 2008 he is being wooed as the saviour. That's the nature of Indian politics. How many times have you heard this popular saying: in politics there are no permanent friends or enemies. Or this one: in politics there are no full stops....
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Bhupendra Chaubey has been a TV journalist for the past 12 years starting his career with NDTV. As a political journalist travelling across the length and breadth of the country, he has that unique ability to grasp things at a micro level and then present it on a macro level. A graduate in Mathematics and post graduate in films, Bhupendra has been among the finest political journalists of his generation having covered two general elections and assembly elections of all states. He is amongst those journalists who depend more on their ground political awareness supplementing it with academic awareness of issues that confront the nation. Bhupendra often hosts the very popular and award winning news show face the nation on CNN-IBN. He wants to be associated with the process of understanding the ever changing face of India. He lives in the national capital with his family.
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