Countdown to 2014 – or 2013?

The UPA government, adrift at the centre, would like to advance the 2014 Lok Sabha election to October-November 2013. That would serve three purposes. One, avoid the electoral blowback of four likely successive state assembly defeats in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi. Two, give the BJP less time to sort out its Narendra Modi-as-PM-candidate dilemma. And three, nip Mulayam Singh Yadav's Third Front idea in the bud.

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