Invisible troubles

The audacious Jayalalithaa move to give a televised political partner-swapping offer to the Congress has left many GOP leaders coy, given their cultivated taste for deal-making in the silence of political cellars. Though enjoying the spectacle of two Dravidian parties doing a musical chairs act around it, the Congress is in no hurry to tango with Jaya.

Yet, tension is mounting in the Opposition camps, busy ‘mobilising forces’ against the ‘scam-hit UPA regime’. After all, what is the fun of this ‘all-out anti-corruption crusade’ if it could only inspire the likes of Jaya to flirt with the UPA!

Worse, there is total confusion after Jaya claimed her nine-member AIADMK altogether has 18 MPs ready to back the Congress! Some opposition leaders are now trying to figure out who these ‘invisible Congress friends’ in their court are. The inbuilt burden of an anti-scam crusade?