Let's leave the political implications of the sudden and strange alliancebetween the Congress and the slippery duo of Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadiparty chief, and his Man Friday, Amar Singh, aside for the present. For that,like the Left Front’s loss of its huge and unprecedented clout at the centreis a different story. What has attracted limelight is the resurrection of theIndia-United States civilian nuclear cooperation deal that most people here aswell as in the US had believed to be "virtually dead". However, asAmerican spokespersons never failed to point out, the cause of the controversialdeal’s impending demise was the "political discord" within India’sruling United Progressive Alliance, not any reluctance on America’s part.