Readers’ comments: Self-serving Opposition would rather play a rigged game than hit the streets

The author has succinctly analysed the institutional capture by the ruling dispensation, and how opposition parties continue to play the electoral game, knowing fully well that rules of the game and the referee have both been neutralised (“ The Opposition’s Bihar delusion and Illusion of democracy ”). My only bone of contention is Anand Teltumbde’s expectations on “what should have been done”. Here, he seems to have set his expectations too high, at least going by the recent performance of the opposition parties.

It is said that doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result is insanity. But what if the whole purpose of doing so is to maintain a status quo in service of a self-serving objective? Sustained mass movement, civil disobedience and the shutting