Left in the Lurch

I have been trying to figure who exactly is sitting in the Opposition in our Esteemed Parliament for quite some time now.

It is in one sense, good to see a group attending Parilament regularly, not just to cheer their speaker at office, but also doing some serious stuff on opposing every issue that the Congress has been grappling with.
If BJP decides to attend Parlaiment, the issues that would be picked up would all be lessons learnt in our History Books with respect to Pre independence era, with no relevance to today - Veer Savarkar, Ram Janma Bhoomi, Mohd Ali Jinnah just to name a few.

Just before you think that I am all for the Left, let me just clarify that I am only comparing the Devil with Deep Sea.

Both Left and the BJP have a batallion of well educated, well seasoned politicians, but what really strangles both the parties is the dilemma, whether to pursue their respective core idelogies, or to concentrate on what the need of the hour are. I think in this, the Left is marginaaly ahead, as they have dismantled the very thought of reforms from their minds.

What really baffles me, is the way Left manages to talk something and do something diametrically opposite, in their den in West Bengal with phenomenal ease.

All that the Left can do is oppose every reform, calling anti this and anti that, and start explaining that Bengal is different from rest of India, in the most unconvincing manner.

There is this old joke that, if Pro is opposite for con, then is progress opposite of Congress?? But all that I can say is for the moment, Left is the opposite of what is right!

Cheers