June 2026 has been the cruelest month for India’s Opposition. They may try to look the other way and blame BJP for the adverse fallout on their present crisis and that is bound to have a long term impact.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla received a letter from TMC MPs including Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Satabdi Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Yusuf Pathan, and others for separate seating arrangement in the House.
Elsewhere, MPs Sanjay Dina Patil, Bhausaheb Rajaram Wakchaure, Omprakash Raje Nimbalkar, Sanjay Haribhai Jadhav etc etc met with Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief Eknath Shinde.
Two regional satraps have been left shattered. This happens when politics is without ideology and more about a family and whims and fancies of a family member.
TMC and Shiv Sena (UBT) in effect met the 'fate'; they deserved.
The Shiv Sena or rather the Udhav Thackeray camp has been hit twice by the defection bomb. Four years ago, Uddhav Thackeray first had to step down as chief minister when MLAs led by Eknath Shinde revolted. Lately, six of the nine MLAs elected to Lok Sabha on a Shiv Sena (UBT) ticket from the Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA) platform jumped ship.
“There is no way we can resist. In Jharkhand, we [the Opposition] had the numbers, yet we lost in the Rajya Sabha polls. Madhya Pradesh is a classic example of how a quasi-legal instrument can be used to deny a candidate her seat,” says an opposition lawmaker.
But the real diagnosis in the opposition is not happening.
“If political parties turn into commodities, who is going to stand for the people? People should come on the roads. The judiciary is supposed to protect but is watching silently while the Constitution is being butchered. EVMs were burned in Bengal,” Arvind Sawant owing allegiance to Uddhav said.
Another leader said there was little the opposition parties could do about the breakneck speed at which the ruling BJP at the Centre has managed two major coups in two political parties.
The real problem is they are not facing the truth - firstly Rahul Gandhi does not evoke sentiment and political reactions among voters as theoretically the Sickular gang is expecting.
But at the same time; there is no accountability for Rahul. He knows - the Congress is like a dynastic property for him. He is running the show surrounded by sycophants and 'yes men'. He has a rubber stamp AICC president Malikrjun Kharge. This dynastic malady has been the case with Uddhav too.
His son and wife started making political strategies assisted by Sanjay Rawat. One similarity between the Udhav camp and the Rahul camp is 'Rajya Sabha's rootless leaders' are the bosses or the closest advisors of the real power.
In the case of TMC too; what has come to light - generally leaders, workers and supporters -- all had problems with Abhishek Banerjee.
And the 'motherly blind love' of Pishi remains unaltered !
"The euphoria from two summers ago when the INDIA bloc restricted the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah led-BJP to 240 seats in Lok Sabha has long since evaporated," says an article in Kolkata-based 'The Telegraph'. However, the particular newspaper being a die-hard anti-Modi phenomenon; it too has failed to point out at the basic lacuna in the opposition party.
The 'dynastic approach' will work against Samajwadi Party as well. Although anti incumbency spirit is building up in Uttar Pradesh; on ground people will find even 'commoner' Yadavs not happy with the manner Akhilesh Yadav has conducted himself as the party supremo.
The Congress and other opposition parties are not only failing themselves. They have almost helped the Modi Govt every bit --- step by step -- to "reshape" the constitutional and political character of India.
From ear on ground feedback; we know the happiest party on May 4th when West Bengal results came was perhaps the Congress party - even more than the BJP.
Had Mamata won 2026 polls; Rahul and his cronies know pretty well - the 'defeated and ousted' former West Bengal CM would have threatened Rahul's leadership claims in the opposition camp.
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