Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien’s assertion that picking a Prime Ministerial candidate is unimportant because “you don’t choose a captain and then choose a team” is nothing but clever obfuscation (‘The Wednesday Interview’,” August 8). The truth is that many Opposition leaders, including the TMC supremo have been nursing Prime Ministerial ambitions. Only a messy compromise can resolve the problem of plenty. The interviewer’s question about the “shrinking Opposition space in Parliament” has irony written all over it.
V.N. Mukundarajan,
Thiruvananthapuram
