  We consider the Belkale-Kumar cup product $\odot_t$ on $H^*(G/P)$ for a
generalized flag variety $G/P$ with parameter $t \in \C^m$, where
$m=\dim(H^2(G/P))$. For each $t\in \C^m$, we define an associated parabolic
subgroup $P_K \supset P$. We show that the ring $(H^*(G/P), \odot_t)$ contains
a graded subalgebra $A$ isomorphic to $H^*(P_K/P)$ with the usual cup product,
where $P_K$ is a parabolic subgroup associated to the parameter $t$. Further,
we prove that $(H^*(G/P_K), \odot_0)$ is the quotient of the ring $(H^*(G/P),
\odot_t)$ with respect to the ideal generated by elements of positive degree of
$A$.
  We prove the above results by using basic facts about the Hochschild-Serre
spectral sequence for relative Lie algebra cohomology, and most of the paper
consists of proving these facts using the original approach of Hochschild and
Serre.
