UPA's leadership crisis

Instead of exulting over the turmoil in Team Anna, the Congress must address the growing rift among its senior leaders, and more importantly key members of the UPA Government, on various contentious issues. That divide, which came into the open most prominently after the Union Finance Ministry’s note on the 2G Spectrum matter — pitting Union Minister of Finance Pranab Mukherjee and Union Minister of Home Affairs P Chidambaram against each other —  has further widened with Mr Mukherjee’s recent whole-hearted endorsement of the conduct of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in the backdrop of its damning reports on the spectrum, the Adarsh Society and the Commonwealth Games scams.

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