Retail googly on sticky wicket

Rarely have sworn political foes fought on the same side.The architects of the Manmohan Singh government's decision to permit FDI in retail must have been stunned,therefore,by the unlikely gang-up in Parliament between the SP and the BSP,the AIADMK and the DMK,the Trinamool Congress and the Left Front and BJP.For once,they were talking the same language and most unusually,coordinating behind the scenes to derail the winter session unless the government rolled back the move to allow international supermarket giants like Walmart,Tesco and Carrefour to set up shop in India.

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