Coalition government can be good sometimes but most of times there is disconnect and tension between the partners. If there is regular touch between the partners and each partner consult each other well programmes and policies can be well executed. More mind benefits any system and if the minds are inclined towards different ideologies we can not expect positive development and harmony of thought and action. We have witnessed a crisis after the presentation of Railway budget. Commenting on the intense political drama over Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi’s decision to hike passenger fares in the railway budget, and his decision to resign on Sunday after a four-day stand-off with the Trinamool Congress leadership, Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja said the central government had succumbed to vagaries of coalition politics.”The resignation of Dinesh Trivedi was demanded by the Trinamool Congress Party on the issue of the hiking of passenger and freight charges in the railway budget. If that is so, whether the Prime Minister, the government, is agreeable to roll back the hike, which has been made and proposed by Dinesh Trivedi in his budget. These are some of the questions which the Prime Minister will have to answer,” Raja said. “The railway budget has already been presented in parliament. It has become the property of the parliament, property of both houses of parliament, since the minister has resigned even before a discussion of the budget could start. It is for the Prime Minister to explain; Prime Minister being the head of the government, the head of the council of ministers. Now, he is in charge of the Railway Ministry,” added Raja. Coalition politics however is a necessity and in a multi party system we have to expect coalition politics. When the partners think only about their states or concern there is always problem. The Trinamul may think of Railway , some other partner about their own state. If the coalition partners in the centre are not national parties the nation will not be going ahead as the political party will be pushing its own interest. The Congress and CPI were partners for the last ten years in Manipur and now Congress is on its own, let us see the difference.
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