General Elections are round the corner and all sots of permutations and combinations have started taking place. All the regional parties are planning to make the kill in this season. One of the leading television channel is analysing the situation in each state and discussing the role of Mamta, Jaylalita, Nitish, Mulayam, Naveen, Sharad Pawar and others whose strength in both the houses of parliament is minuscule but they play the role of a king maker.
I have always been a supporter of two party system because it helps citizens to give a clear mandate and you also know that who stands for whom. The small regional parties may play a big role in state politics but when it comes to national politics they generally turn into blackmailers. You may find my view a bit strong bu the past two decades have shown how governments formed or removed over a chai party. Another major exception that I take is that most of these parties lack a definitive ideology, one day they are with somebody, the next day with other, all in the name of coalition dharma. How can today Nitish Kumar ji turn secular by opposing Mr. Modi when he formed the govt with the help of BJP and was a part of NDA with Mr. Modi very much being a part of BJP? Politics of opportunity is always a fact in democracy but with rising literacy and younger generation, these parties can no longer afford to hoodwink the general public.
Congress and BJP are the two major national parties and through out India a referendum needs to be taken whether people want just these two parties or regional parties are required. If we closely analyse these parties and their leaders we find they are wither products of Congress or BJP.
An argument which is often made is that states can develop and progress only with the help of regional parties but our recent experience is not too good in the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Punjab and others. One of the major problems with TMC or AIDMK or Biju Janata Dal or Akali Dal or BSP or SP or Shiv Sena etc is that they are personality dominated parties, dependent on a single individual who works according to their whims and fancies.
A similar trend can now be seen in BJP too where they handing over the reigns to an individual who is not a group worker, spends zillions of rupees to market himself, is self obsessed. I can already read the comments by pro Modi supporters. But my earnest request is do we want a tyrant as our country's leader?
We may differ on our political ideologies and I always agree to disagree on this as we are in a democracy. But let us deliberate on a two party system again or rethink the role of regional parties.
I have always been a supporter of two party system because it helps citizens to give a clear mandate and you also know that who stands for whom. The small regional parties may play a big role in state politics but when it comes to national politics they generally turn into blackmailers. You may find my view a bit strong bu the past two decades have shown how governments formed or removed over a chai party. Another major exception that I take is that most of these parties lack a definitive ideology, one day they are with somebody, the next day with other, all in the name of coalition dharma. How can today Nitish Kumar ji turn secular by opposing Mr. Modi when he formed the govt with the help of BJP and was a part of NDA with Mr. Modi very much being a part of BJP? Politics of opportunity is always a fact in democracy but with rising literacy and younger generation, these parties can no longer afford to hoodwink the general public.
Congress and BJP are the two major national parties and through out India a referendum needs to be taken whether people want just these two parties or regional parties are required. If we closely analyse these parties and their leaders we find they are wither products of Congress or BJP.
An argument which is often made is that states can develop and progress only with the help of regional parties but our recent experience is not too good in the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Punjab and others. One of the major problems with TMC or AIDMK or Biju Janata Dal or Akali Dal or BSP or SP or Shiv Sena etc is that they are personality dominated parties, dependent on a single individual who works according to their whims and fancies.
A similar trend can now be seen in BJP too where they handing over the reigns to an individual who is not a group worker, spends zillions of rupees to market himself, is self obsessed. I can already read the comments by pro Modi supporters. But my earnest request is do we want a tyrant as our country's leader?
We may differ on our political ideologies and I always agree to disagree on this as we are in a democracy. But let us deliberate on a two party system again or rethink the role of regional parties.
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