This is the price we pay for political monotheism in our country whether at national or state level. When YSR became CM in 2004, he had a solid performance to back him up in terms of the no. of parliamentary seats that was won for the Congress, a feat he repeated again in 2009, which was all the more important because it gave the Congress the numbers it needed so that it is not subject to blackmail by other parties.

In the process, it had a negative effect in a different way. From the time of 2004 when YSR was given a free hand, he went about strengthening his own power base with the solid support of the High Command and he more or less succeeded in sidelining every other leader of importance or any other serious challenger to his undisputed hegemony. The crowning glory of the 2009 elections gave a further impetus to this as YSR went about sidelining or pushing them into irrelevance many of the other senior or important leaders whom he thought could challenge his undisputed power. D ...more

If talks fail, probably that will be the only option left.

No. It will become a bad precedent.

No