Lok
Sabha election opinion exit poll.
The UPA government, adrift at the centre, would like to advance the 2014 Lok Sabha election to October-November 2013.
That would serve three purposes.
One,
avoid the electoral blowback of four likely successive state assembly
defeats in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi. Two, give
the BJP less time to sort out its Narendra Modi-as-PM-candidate dilemma.
And three, nip Mulayam Singh Yadav's Third Front idea in the bud.
Time,
however, is not on the UPA’s side. While the SP and BSP, enmeshed in
corruption, communalism and casteism, can be counted on for rancid,
day-to-day support, the Congress too needs time to gain full electoral
benefit from its cash transfer scheme and food security bill.
