What obviously crosses-over and overlap between several regional parties and congress is the core minority vote bank that they have earned through years of minority appeasement.
Arvind Kejriwal gave Lok Sabha tickets to people with 380 and 382 cases against them, and was talking of 'clean candidates' in Goa and had the audacity to claim that AAP will field only clean candidates!
The message of Ramachandra Guha is very clear and loud to all opposition parties. The opposition parties must fight the Congress more than BJP and Modi.
The real strength of DMK today is congress, VCK, left and other alliance partners and without the alliance, DMK at best can only see day dream of coming to power.
If the left liberals want to make protest as their best career option and are going to get suitably rewarded by the political parties then the left liberals has plenty of reasons to protest.
The protests are no longer about CAA or NRC anymore, it’s about Muslims flexing their political and ideological muscles and trying to frighten the majority population by their wanton acts of violence.