Coalitions

coalitions

At the time of independence congress was the major single party and swept 400+ seats which were expected. They enjoyed this position for more than 20 years with some minor hiccups. the baton transferred from Jawahar Lal Nehru to Lal Bahadur Sashtri to Indra Gandhi but no one imagined a non-congress government in the centre. 

But meanwhile state assemblies started to see some changes with congress started to lose some ground and regional party making head way. The main reason for this change is the congress failed to understand the needs and wishes of people of each and every states which are quite different from one another and people give equal importance to local as well as national issues. Feeling neglected and oppressed the people started giving importance to regional parties as their agendas are more state focused and cater to local needs hence slowly and slowly they rose to prominence.

Still there individual strength were negligible and most of the time congress swapped them away in Lok Shabha election. But all that changed in 1977 when first non-congress government came into power with the help of many small regional parties. Although the govt. didn't last long but it gave a new dimension to the Indian politics and a new term was evolved i.e. coalition government. And regional parties stated nurturing national dreams.

In 1990's all that changed with meteoric rise of BJP and and a sudden downfall of Congress. With both of them struggling to making government in centre a new era of alliances stated giving leverage to regional parties. Knowing fully well that neither congress nor BJP can cross the magical figure of 272 regional parties started arm twisting them to acquire major portfolios and releasing special funds for their states. This unique situation give them a perfect opportunity to realize there national dream.

But the main question is: IS IT GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY?    you decide!!!!!!!