Having suffered morale-sapping defeats in the recent Assembly elections, bickering INDIA bloc allies Congress and Trinamool Congress sent out first signals of rapprochement Tuesday. At the same time, a rupture in ties between the DMK and Congress in Tamil Nadu seems to be on the cards. The defeat of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and M K Stalin’s DMK – two of the strongest regional and foundational pillars of the Opposition bloc – had raised questions both on the future of the INDIA bloc and its ability to check the fast-expanding BJP. Another INDIA constituent, the Left, now has no government anywhere in the country in nearly five decades. The Congress itself can barely take solace from the Kerala win as it coincided with a battering in Assam and all of two seats in Bengal. The results underline the Opposition’s inability to take forward its political planks centered around the Special Intensive Revision and the functioning of the Election Commission, as well as delimitation plans.…