As Opposition leaders clasped and raised their hands on the dais for the customary photo-op at Jantar Mantar on Wednesday evening, N Chandrababu Naidu stood on the right and Sharad Pawar on the left of Mamata Banerjee. She, in turn, folded her hands in a namaskar.
Naidu and Pawar have come to occupy the space that Harkishan Singh Surjeet did in 2003-04. They are the strategists of what opposition hopes could turn into either a UPA 3 government or another United Front government, which had