So we are back to a situation where the government is tottering and an election may hit us anytime. Though I am not a great fan of congress purely because of the corruption and the pseudo secular agenda it has, I still feel that FDI is retail is needed .. One thing is it will make our local products even more competitive and innovative.. But thats apart, why are we so dependent on such smaller fringe parties to run a country.. Honestly Nitish Kumar (22), Mamta B (19) Mayawati (21) Mulayam (22) MK (18) should not have this much bargaining power. The people who drafted the constitution committed a great blunder by accepting a plurality electoral system for such a large country.. This means anyone can win in a local area and if that area happens to have a greater population/seats he /she has a better bargaining card.. Imagine this, one state UP has more bargaining power than 7-8 states put together.. Imagine the plight of north east.. they have hardly 20 MPs for 7 states or including sikkim 8 states???
Lalu, Mulayam, left etc. say that they will still support corrupt congress than BJP just because of secularism?? what is secular??? USSR was the only secular nation.. secularism means EQUI DISTANCE from all religions.. appeasing a minority religion is definitely non secular... I cant understand how a muslim league in kerala can be a part of secular alliance and a BJP is fundamental!!!
The predominantly catholic populace of Goa have waken up and realised that the so called hindu party can offer better governance .. Thats how a nation is built.. not by the myopic polices of appeasement
Will a mid term poll throw a clear winner? I don't think so.. It will only help increase the bargaining power of people like Nitish.. I have begun to hate that man... Bihar has a total of 243 setats of which he has 115 and BJP 91.. he has a vote share of only 22% in Bihar and yet he nurtures ambition of being PM? compare that to Modi who's part of a national party, has absolute majority in his state and has a better governance record.. Oh no but Modi killed muslims??? so by that standard congress should never be voted n Punjab as they killed far many sikhs in 1984!!!!
The problem the country has now is there is no real opposition!!! BJP is targeted left right and centre even by the media and that weakens it. Its allies are not very consistent.. Only God knows what Shiv Sena's agenda is.. they support congress candidate in every presidential elections.. appear desirous of winning Maharashtra legislative assemble and are content with BMC alone!! Nitish is behaving as if he is the lord of Bihar.. he doesn't realise if BJP goes out then Lalu has a stronger chance of winning Bihar than himself.. BJP shot itself in the foot by distancing BJD....only BJD can save them.. Andhra is a black hole with TDP going down and out !!!
The best option is to mandate that there should be only two major political formations at the centre and the leader of a particular formation depends on the vote share .. To be in power one of the formations must have in excess of 50% vote share!!! Based on the vote share seats should be allocated ...simply put to win a seat, any one must have 50% vote share or more.. this may result in a primary/run off election format but that expense is worth it...
This will ensure party with a pan india presence (congress or BJP or someone else tomorrow) to shape the country's policies as opposed to a fringe player with a local presence.. I definitely don't want Mulayam or Nitish as PM.. I wouldn't vote for both in the current scenario..
The best coalition government this country had was in 1999-2004!! In 1998 ABV had the guts not to horse trade, lose by 1 vote and seek fresh mandate.. because he knew that he will be able to win over people.. He showed how strong the PM's office can be even with so called coalition compulsions...
Does the current govt. have the guts to do so?
Still a lot of this local players will support the same formation as they can derive maximum benefit!!
If we don't get the act right then this country is in a great danger of descending into a greater chaos
Lalu, Mulayam, left etc. say that they will still support corrupt congress than BJP just because of secularism?? what is secular??? USSR was the only secular nation.. secularism means EQUI DISTANCE from all religions.. appeasing a minority religion is definitely non secular... I cant understand how a muslim league in kerala can be a part of secular alliance and a BJP is fundamental!!!
The predominantly catholic populace of Goa have waken up and realised that the so called hindu party can offer better governance .. Thats how a nation is built.. not by the myopic polices of appeasement
Will a mid term poll throw a clear winner? I don't think so.. It will only help increase the bargaining power of people like Nitish.. I have begun to hate that man... Bihar has a total of 243 setats of which he has 115 and BJP 91.. he has a vote share of only 22% in Bihar and yet he nurtures ambition of being PM? compare that to Modi who's part of a national party, has absolute majority in his state and has a better governance record.. Oh no but Modi killed muslims??? so by that standard congress should never be voted n Punjab as they killed far many sikhs in 1984!!!!
The problem the country has now is there is no real opposition!!! BJP is targeted left right and centre even by the media and that weakens it. Its allies are not very consistent.. Only God knows what Shiv Sena's agenda is.. they support congress candidate in every presidential elections.. appear desirous of winning Maharashtra legislative assemble and are content with BMC alone!! Nitish is behaving as if he is the lord of Bihar.. he doesn't realise if BJP goes out then Lalu has a stronger chance of winning Bihar than himself.. BJP shot itself in the foot by distancing BJD....only BJD can save them.. Andhra is a black hole with TDP going down and out !!!
The best option is to mandate that there should be only two major political formations at the centre and the leader of a particular formation depends on the vote share .. To be in power one of the formations must have in excess of 50% vote share!!! Based on the vote share seats should be allocated ...simply put to win a seat, any one must have 50% vote share or more.. this may result in a primary/run off election format but that expense is worth it...
This will ensure party with a pan india presence (congress or BJP or someone else tomorrow) to shape the country's policies as opposed to a fringe player with a local presence.. I definitely don't want Mulayam or Nitish as PM.. I wouldn't vote for both in the current scenario..
The best coalition government this country had was in 1999-2004!! In 1998 ABV had the guts not to horse trade, lose by 1 vote and seek fresh mandate.. because he knew that he will be able to win over people.. He showed how strong the PM's office can be even with so called coalition compulsions...
Does the current govt. have the guts to do so?
Still a lot of this local players will support the same formation as they can derive maximum benefit!!
If we don't get the act right then this country is in a great danger of descending into a greater chaos
