The government formation in Delhi is going through twists and turns. As a layman, I thought that there was only one way - dissolve the assembly and the parties go for a fresh mandate. This was because the AAP, during the run up to the elections, had stated that it was a party with a difference and therefore, will have no truck with either the Congress or the BJP because they're corrupt with years in power!
Post elections, none of the parties had a clear mandate. One felt nice of the principled(?) BJP stand saying that it did not have the numbers to rule. It was the party with the largest number of seats, five short of a majority. The AAP, then, went ahead and formed a government, with outside support from its arch enemy, the Congress, an action that was totally at loggerheads with its stated stand!
The arrangement worked for just 49 days because:-
(a) Arvind Kejriwal's ambition to become the Prime Minister, buoyed by the people's support
to his party during the Assembly elections. He was under the grandiose illusion that he'd
a pan-Indian acceptance as his subsequent actions were to prove!
(b) His government, while in power, did nothing but create chaos and literally was in a pitched
battle with the Delhi Police whom it wanted to take action on people that it pointed out as
law breakers! It was reduced to a government resorting to gimmickry.
(c) The Congress was smarting for revenge and looked for the earliest opportunity to pull its
rug of support under some flimsy reason or the other.
And now, post parliamentary elections and with a BJP government at the center, that party thinks it can form a government in Delhi too though the arithmetic - the seats that it has in the Assembly -remains the same. Poaching MLAs from other parties, especially the AAP, seemed to be a natural progression in the greed to rule at any cost.
We've been watching the shenanigans, thanks to an ever active media which has been asking a lot of uncomfortable questions to all the parties.
There continues to be only one alternative to this big mess - dissolve the Assembly and go for fresh elections. The mood of the people, disgusted with the goings on, needs to be expressed. Every day that's frittered away with inaction is a slap on the face of the Delhiite!
Tailpiece.
The delay is gonna affect the BJP most. What is it waiting for? Does it have inhibitions of losing Delhi?
Post elections, none of the parties had a clear mandate. One felt nice of the principled(?) BJP stand saying that it did not have the numbers to rule. It was the party with the largest number of seats, five short of a majority. The AAP, then, went ahead and formed a government, with outside support from its arch enemy, the Congress, an action that was totally at loggerheads with its stated stand!
The arrangement worked for just 49 days because:-
(a) Arvind Kejriwal's ambition to become the Prime Minister, buoyed by the people's support
to his party during the Assembly elections. He was under the grandiose illusion that he'd
a pan-Indian acceptance as his subsequent actions were to prove!
(b) His government, while in power, did nothing but create chaos and literally was in a pitched
battle with the Delhi Police whom it wanted to take action on people that it pointed out as
law breakers! It was reduced to a government resorting to gimmickry.
(c) The Congress was smarting for revenge and looked for the earliest opportunity to pull its
rug of support under some flimsy reason or the other.
And now, post parliamentary elections and with a BJP government at the center, that party thinks it can form a government in Delhi too though the arithmetic - the seats that it has in the Assembly -remains the same. Poaching MLAs from other parties, especially the AAP, seemed to be a natural progression in the greed to rule at any cost.
We've been watching the shenanigans, thanks to an ever active media which has been asking a lot of uncomfortable questions to all the parties.
There continues to be only one alternative to this big mess - dissolve the Assembly and go for fresh elections. The mood of the people, disgusted with the goings on, needs to be expressed. Every day that's frittered away with inaction is a slap on the face of the Delhiite!
Tailpiece.
The delay is gonna affect the BJP most. What is it waiting for? Does it have inhibitions of losing Delhi?
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