Will the ‘Mahagathbandhan’ hold up?

On Saturday, leaders of 23 different opposition parties came together for the United India Rally in Kolkata, led by Mamta Banerjee, to project themselves as a ‘Mahagathbandhan’. In this episode we try to look at whether an alliance such as this is likely to hold up, how alliances among political rivals have fared in the past and to what extent will this ‘Mahagathbandhan’ actually hurt the BJP. Manoj CG joins us to answer these questions and also explain why the notion of a grand alliance might be somewhat misplaced.