Television teams and others outside the ITC Grand Bharat in Manesar on July 12, 2020, amid reports that numerous MLAs of the Congress and the BJP from Rajasthan are remaining there. (Representational image just.).|Picture Credit:
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There are “clubs within clubs” among those herded lawmakers. Celebrations gauge their mood– read allegiance– every day and deploy psy ops to secure their flock.
In his extremely regarded book on the development of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) federal government in Maharashtra entitled “Checkmate: How the BJP Won and Lost Maharashtra” (Penguin, 2020) Sudhir Suryawanshi enters into significant information on simply how the Congress MLAs, sequestered (paradoxically in Jaipur) spent their time. Apart from an everyday roll call to guarantee that the head count stayed the exact same and there were no dropouts, MLAs were every day inquired about their political stance by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) observer staying on with them. Soon enough, writes Suryawanshi, MLAs got into numerous “clubs within clubs” as he calls it.