The art of forging cohesive coalitions

In the 1960s and 1970s, Mrs Indira Gandhi used to defend herself from any political attack by blaming the foreign hand. Similarly, ever since the UPA2 came back in 2009, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has blamed the ‘coalition compulsions’ to brush off policy paralysis. Hurt by the Prime Minister’s repeated allegation of the allies blocking the decisions, NCP chief Sharad Pawar even wrote a protest letter claiming that his party had never created any problem. Recently, Union Minister for Finance Pranab Mukherjee too cited two major compulsions facing the Government — global slowdown and the need to accept coalition realities for political survival.

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