Rashtra Manch Meet at Sharad Pawar's Residence

[Sukla Sen]

Here's the official media briefing on the (brainstorming?) meet of the Rashtra Manch at Sharad Pawar's residence in Delhi (at the initiative of Yashwant Sinha).

It's, as of now, fairly hazy.

Still it looks like, it aspires to become a think tank +, on the national plane, for anti-BJP politics.

That, by its very nature, poses some sort of challenge to the Congress - as the natural, and default, epicentre.

As, as of now, the ideational alternatives/critiques keep coming from only the Congress and, to an extent, pretty enfeebled Left.

On the flip side, it offers some hope of acting as a catalytic agent facilitating formation of a broader anti-BJP front - based on a (common) programme and, thereby, also ensuring some cohesion, with wider public acceptability.

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