Groom's Horse

Political skirmishes bring with it delightful literary encounters that sort of define the crux of the conflict. A recent fallout from within an emerging political party in TN presented us with one such. 

The Groom:

The horse in a marriage function tends to think of itself as a celebrity due to all the fanfare around it. Only when the groom dismounts, it realizes that all the attention was for the groom and not for it.

The Horse:

I thought of myself as Alexander's Horse that was saddled with an ideological drive. A revolutionary like Alexander knows the value of his horse and its criticality in warfare. It turns out that I was merely expected to carry a groom, a perfunctory assignment that I didn't sign up for. 

Who is the Groom, who is the horse and what is the ideological tussle is for you to figure out...