Jammu, Feb. 7 -- Every passing day featuring parties within the INDIA alliance sniping at each other at state level is bad

publicity for the alliance particularly given the proximity of the 2024 general elections

By SHYAM G MENON

India's Opposition parties, currently claiming to put up a fight to the Bharatiya Janata Party at the national level, require to understand a fundamental reality - few give them a damn.

In their disparate pocket burrows, in their respective states, they may count. But as an alliance, nationally - no; not as yet.

And it is isn't because Nitish Kumar returned recently to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance.

If anything, he merely amplified the longstanding opportunism in Indian politics; his re-entry to ...