COALITION: A POLITICS OF CONVENIENCE

Many of us grew up in India to stand witness to coalition governments in states and centre. The greed for power and desire to grab opportunity to remain in power made many strange discordant political bedpartners even to the extent of burying the original names of their party. The Congress became Congress (I) further divided into Congress O and Congress R, Congress I to Indian National Congress (INC) only to be merged in a collection of 21 parties as United Progressive Alliance-1 (UPA-1) and at present UPA-2.

In 1977, Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) merged with 13 several left, centre and right parties opposed the rule of the Indian National Congress and formed the Janata Party. Among others the Janata Party also had a clown like Raj Narain just as later UPA had Lalu Prasad Yadav . After the Janata Party split in 1980, it was re-formed as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 1980.

In 1998, a 42 member-party-NDA was formed with BJP as only party of National stature.

Mayawati became CM of UP briefly for 137 days with BJP supported from outside while in 2nd term BSP-BJP alliance formed government for 184 days in 1997.

BJP entered into a coalition with a terrorist supporting party PDP to be in the government of J&K. In the process BJP forgot Article 370, issues of exiled Kashmiri pandits and even remained soft towards locals attacking army on duty.

Today the IT Cell generated trolled posts from BJP camps are crying foul against Mahagathbandhan as TMC called 'United India' anti-BJP Saturday the 19th January rally at Brigade Parade grounds here at Kolkata to present a united face of the Opposition ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections.

Leaders from more than 22 national and regional political parties which include a former prime minister and several union ministers, sitting chief ministers and former chief ministers were present at the rally.

It is a paradox to see BJP, a party itself in a largest coalition pointing fingers on others going for coalition. Reason is obvious - the retention of power for BJP led NDA seems in danger. False and unfulfilled inflated promises and constant u-turns, communal and divisive politics, corruption and lawlessness are the issues most likely to take toll on the ruling government. So whom to rely on?

Power and ambition have become the keywords in political vocabulary of the politicians. The public and the national interests have been replaced by personal and sectarian interests. This has disastrous consequences for the actual conduct of the polity. The opportunism motivated by personal ambition for power, has made political ideology a matter of con­venience rather than of conviction. Coalition is more often than not a politics of convenience. Even the coalition to oust Indira Gandhi after emergency did not last long as personal interest clashed with democratic ideology.

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