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The Opposition missed the real hot button issue: inflation

In the last 20 years or so, the opposition parties have been more concerned with posturing rather than the national interest.

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
The Winter Session of Parliament has just concluded and the current Opposition, like so many since 2004, has failed to make use of it.

In the last 20 years or so, the opposition parties have been more concerned with posturing rather than the national interest. Their tactic: disrupt, disrupt, disrupt. No one knows what they gain from it.

And so the Congress has foregone a debate in Parliament about inflation, which has the highest political potential amongst all economic subjects. It’s an issue that is on everybody’s plates and minds and certainly in their pockets.

Yet, it chose to use its limited time
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