A stunning palace coup

The implications of the shock press conference held jointly by Mamata Banerjee and Mulayam Singh Yadav go far beyond who gets to succeed Pratibha Patil at Rashtrapati Bhavan. They amount to a stunning palace coup within the UPA, and spell the beginning of its end. It's unlikely that we'll have to wait for 2014 now, for the next general elections.

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