Glorified Soap Bubbles

Just after few days of Glory, the first BJP government of south India is all set to fall down like a deck of cards. Well… I always believed the mantra of coalition government is as good as a soap bubble. It would look pretty for the time being, but sooner or later, it’s all going to burst. It would be comical to see the same cream of the crop who were joined as Siamese Twins fighting each other with their teeth and nails to hold on to the seat of power.

It’s a rare phenomenon in the world of politics that two heads can be in synch to work in tandem. Each one would have their own priority and often it contradicts what the other person is thinking on the same subject. This fact actually becomes a road block for the development of the state/country and we the common man would suffer in the end. In Karnataka itself, the IT capitol of India – with its newly baptized name – Bangalooru is struggling to cop up with the ever growing need of a better infrastructure. Its at this juncture that the whole state goes for a stand still- without an elected government on the power.

To give you a small example, there was a small bridge which happen to go over a small drainage which was demolished to have it renovated a few weeks back. This in turn has increased my travel distance to office to about a mile more and lots of re-directing followed. It’s a chaos to reach office these days and the work which would’ve been done by now in any metros in this country is not even on it’s a quarter way mark. Had we got one working government on power, I believe atleast 50% of the work would’ve been done by now.

If you take India as the whole, the current coalition at the center – the Congress + left – formulae is stuck on the nuclear deal with US. I can see some relief in that tension as CPI is trying it level best to cover up the entire Nandigram issue of their party men butchering many in Bangal by compromising their very own stand on the entire nuclear issue…

I think the only coalition which works so far is Husband and Wife… (jokes apart)