Congress must embrace an inclusive agenda based on the recognition that market-driven economic processes cannot deliver social opportunity or minimum needs to the poor. Imperative is public action and initiatives like NREGA, loan-waiver for farmers, and other pro-people social programmes

The Congress is confident of breaking new ground, but going it alone might be a risky venture on the ground

Will it be Manmohan Singh or some other leader who will sit across the table at the next summit? That’s what Vladimir Putin might be thinking