evidence: Even as the Rajya Sabha was inconclusively debating the Lokpal bill till late hours in the night, the Lok Sabha was adjourned on Thursday. And in a vain attempt to overcome their acute discomfiture, the Congress went on an overdrive to put the entire onus of the failed winter session of Parliament on the opposition, particularly the BJP. The ploy is an overused one and is unlikely to fool anyone. For the principal reason for the government’s inability to push through most of the legislative business it had planned for the session was the failure of its floor managers to manage the members of the Congress party and its allies themselves. That nearly two dozen Congress MPs were missing during the vote on the bill according constitutional status to the Lokpal highlights their ineptitude. [...] Till the last day, the truncated winter session of Parliament provided many examples of the price the government had to pay for this arrogance. It had to put the Cabinet decision on opening Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in retail sector on hold due to opposition from the UPA constituents and not the Opposition. And many of its proposed legislations, including the one on Lokpal, ran into rough weather because the Congress did not take its UPA allies on board.