The Cynics of Delhi

I was talking last week to a senior official from the Congress Party in one of the capital’s colonial bungalows that are a much-envied perk of power when news arrived that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (D.M.K.), a party from the southern state of Tamil Nadu and an important partner in Congress’s ruling alliance, had withdrawn support from the government. The functionary was gleeful. That reaction surprised me, but less so than the explanation for it: “There goes Chidambaram’s chance of becoming prime minister.”

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