Mayawati gives mahagathbandhan a reality check

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Mayawati’s outburst against Congress should sober those true-believing partisans who had already taken bets on a mahagathbandhan defeating Narendra Modi in 2019. Alliance will indeed decide who wins 2019. But free radicals like BSP will decide the alliance purely by self-interest, not ideology.