Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Now they call it "seat sharing agreement " !

The great Indian election circus has finally kicked off starting from April 16 to mid of May and political parties are jostling with each other to get their pie in a so called seat sharing agreement with regional parties . as it is evident from news coming from each state of the union , what is even more interesting is that the number crunching calculus over the constituencies across the states is now being referred to as seat sharing arrangement rather than eventual " power sharing " arrangement . its clear from the recent past that , the dynamics of Indian electorate has changed considerably with major parties like the congress going from a one party image ( gandhi family party ) to a minuscle force in states like Tamil nadu, west Bengal , U.P and Bihar. with emphasis on local administration and strengthening of local polity, the impact of regional parties will continue to have a significant influence over national politics particularly over decisions that concern the public policy domain . it would be interesting to watch out how the strategies of major parties like congress and BJP work during this summer ! let us wait and witness the real drama of Indian politics .......which i would like to welcome in Rehman's words Jai HO ... (hail ..)

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