It appears that Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan has borrowed the inert strategy of his former federal counterpart, Manmohan Singh: Keep quiet and cary on.

With the BJP reducing most political parties to insignificance in the Lok Sabha elections, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Assam CM Tarun Gogoi have handed in their resignations. DMK’s M K Stalin, too, offered to resign from all party posts.