Neeraj Bajpai For 2019 General elections, leaders of political parties have started huddling in war rooms, and are deeply engaged in back channels dialogues to stitch alliances for a sure shot clincher at the hustings . Strange bedfellows’ syndrome is an order of the day. Stakeholders are making desperate bids to showcase the credible and winning grouping ahead of polls, due within the next three or four months, to elect 17 th Lok Sabha. With the first phase of the winter session coming to end this week, parleys among parties have gained momentum, the formal seal on these tie-ups might be stamped only after the declaration of elections because that paves the way of imposition of a code of conduct. Old saying --when the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others windmills-is virtually palpable. And many turncoats can be seen making windmills by crossing sides and some are making walls so that allies don’t run away. Political metrological scientists