People are astonished to hear the news of BJP and Congress Party sharing power in Parliament.
It is difficult to happen. But the situation will compel both to share power to avoid frequent election and to keep smaller parties away from national politics whose agenda is to blackmail with national parties and grab maximum amount of cake. It is result of 20 years experience of coalition government that BJP and Congress have realized or should realize that whenever they formed government jointly with smaller parties or regional parties , smaller became bigger and bigger became smaller.
As a matter of fact President of India is deaf and dumb and also blind and indifferent to what is happening in the country. She has been enjoying the glamour, comfort of Rashtrapati Bhawan. She has been acting as true Rubber Stamp of the government. She could not persuade, compel or direct small regional parties to align themselves with any one of national parties whose present is at least in 10 states and which has the record of gaining at least 20% of votes polled in the election held in the past.
Every person in the country know and understand well that none of the political party or group is going to win simple majority in the election held this year. There is 24 hours debate going on TV and it is open secret for last two- three months that the result of the election will be fracture mandate. Experts of media are trying their best to portray the national scene on TV, of course with biased attitude.
But perhaps President of India is not interested to take care of the critical situation likely to emerge after the result. In our country there is a tradition that police reaches spot when looters complete the task of looting and fly away from the town inspite of complaint call received from several quarters. Similarly fire brigade mostly reaches the spot when every thing is burnt or common mass has already extinguished the fire with available water. Our President is therefore waiting for crisis to take place in the country, allowing winning candidates to be traded openly by various political parties through the channel of top trade houses. She will like to be silent spectator of political drama, open rape of democracy and cheating with voters taking place in the country. She will act only when her mentor Congress Party leaders advises her to do or act.
There is no innovative idea, no creativeness and no urge for initiative in the mind of President to cure or to diagnose the sick mind of dirty politicians. It is very much painful. There s no need of having one piece of such President in the country. Two decades ago when elected representatives used to switch over from one party to other frequently, anti defection act was enacted to prevent fraud with voters. Now openly leaders are abusing rival candidate during election and after election shamelessly hug each other, clear cut case of cheating with voters and is worst kind of defection one can ever visualize.
Danendra Jain Agartala
15h May 2009
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