E Minus 43 : Hiccups and rainbow alliances

Due to technical difficulties, we are unable to post content as promised in the first post. But we should be online and on track by the end of the day tomorrow.

A quick word on the title of this post. We will lead the first post of the day with the notation E (election) minus 'number of days' remaining. This will also contain the heading of the lead article.
Picked up this very intersting piece on sify.com which has a pretty good election coverage page. The phraseology 'rainbow alliance' is bound to get more popular as the E-day gets closer. An excerpt from the article (with due credit to sify.com)

When the then Indira Gandhi government dismissed the MGR government and sought a fresh mandate, joining hands with the DMK, the people, reversing their stand, voted differently in the Assembly poll and brough back MGR.

But this time the going will be tough, says BJP Senior Leader M Venkaiah Naidu who predicts that neither of the two fronts will bag a majority. There will be a fractured mandate and the state could head for a hung Assembly, he predicts.

CPI leader D Pandian, a constituent of DPA is also not willing to rule out the possibility of people giving a fractured verdict. ''Even the weather experts failed to predict the tsunami and what will happen in this election, no one can predict,'' he says

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Click here to read the article.