LEFT GETS THE WORST OF BOTH WORLDS

Almost all the good things which the previous government did for common man were primarily on Left's exhortion - be it NREGP, RTI , the Forest dweller's bill,farm loan waiver etc.However during the elections Congress has got the credit of it all. On the other hand, all the flak for stalling the wishes of middle and upper middle classes (viz. economic reforms , nuclear deal etc.) was heaped on the communists .Thus the Left got the worst of both worlds while Congress received the best( it regained the support of its traditional vote bank of common man as also the votes of the middle classes which had earlier sided with the BJP.To a large extent Left's plight is on account of exercising control without shouldering responsibility( by not joining the Cabinet).A similar thing had happened to TDP too the last time out. This should provide some food for thought for proponents of "support from outside"- they get left out in the long run.