Oppn unity: Smooth start, but UPA-III on Cong's terms is far from reality

The road for the Opposition is full of 'ifs' and 'buts'

On the opening day of the Budget session on January 29, Prime Minister Narendra Modi walked up to an opposition leader and after exchanging pleasantries, asked jovially why his friends had suddenly become super-active.

This was on a day when Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) supremo Sharad Pawar had called a meeting of opposition leaders at his 6, Janpath residence in New Delhi to chalk out the strategy for the crucial session.Pawar of late has become politically active. 

On the Republic Day, he was in the forefront of the “Save the Constitution” march by opposition figures in Mumbai in the wake