Hyderabad, March 27 -- Perhaps nothing can be as ridiculous as the idea of Bharatiya Janata Party-Biju Janata Dal alliance conceived on March 5, but had to abruptly undergo abortion on March 22. This development exposes the utter lack of political foresight of the top brass of two important political parties-one boasting of being the largest in the world and another the most powerful of Odisha.

Can one imagine of Democratic and Republican Party in USA, Conservative and Labour Party in England or BJP and Indian National Congress going for tie up just a week before the announcement of election dates? And, then on March 22, that is six days after the Election Commission made public the dates of polling, they abruptly disclosed that they wou...