8226; For a week after the declaration of the Maharashtra assembly elections results the saviours of the “aam admi” and the Nationalist Congress Party were tied up in knots trying to decide who should be chief minister of the state.
It would have been prudent of the supreme leader who had ‘‘sacrificed’’ the prime minister’s post to tell her disciplined followers to sacrifice rather than indulge in hard bargaining for the chief minister’s chair. In the “tamasha” of negotiations between the Congress and the NCP the plight of the aam admi was relegated to the back bench.

— K.R.P. Gupta Mumbai