When the tail seeks to wag the dog

Ensure that the tail wags the dog: that appears to be the mantra of the Congress to promote its national-level interests in states where it has a negligible presence. The strategy is to woo (with financial largesse) or intimidate (with the deployment of central investigation agencies) rival regional parties. Let them be at each other's throats on their home turf, runs the argument, but make sure that in New Delhi they keep the Congress-led government going.

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