Bhubaneswar, July 22 -- By Ashutosh Mishra

Bhubaneswar: Though there are only nine of them in the state assembly this time Congress MLAs have impressed everyone with their performance in the House. The ongoing budget session of the legislature has seen them raising public issues of significance and pursuing them aggressively. They have been playing the role of opposition to the hilt though Congress is no more the main opposition party in the assembly, having conceded that honour to the BJP which has 23 MLAs.

Sometimes crisis brings the best out of people. The need for survival in the wake of party's crushing defeat in the recent assembly elections appears to have made Congress legislators shrug off complacency and raise their performance ...