They came driven in their own cars to do the needful. The needful were different for the two protagonists of the Nuclear Deal Drama India has witnessed in the past couple of weeks. Prakash Karat, the Communist boss, came to announce the withdrawal of support in a Wagon R (the small car from Maruti Suzuki). Mulayam Singh Yadav and Amar Singh, the two leaders of the Samajwadi Party, came in a Toyota Camry (a luxury sedan in India) to start on the deal to extend support to the beleagured government. Cars - perhaps - don't make the men but in this case it starkly revealed the polar differences between the two parties and also a pointer to what the Congress party was getting into. Ajay Shah writes in his blog about Congress' inexperience with coalitions and Saubhik Chakrabarti, who Shah cites, is correct. The SP with its skullduggery and under-the-table arm twisting will ensure that some key policy decisions are seen through while extracting their pound of flesh from other quarters. And that is the way India is destined to be run in the next few crucial years of the country's existence.
Being a democracy is bad enough to push radical reforms through - every decision has to be debated ad-infinitum and often by people who just don't get it. And imagine a colatition - an euphemism to describe a bundle of opportunistic once-goons-now-politicians trading horses of every size and shape - working within a democracy. If Apple hadn't staked a claim on the phrase and put it as their address, we could have justly termed the situation as "Infinite Loop".
A corporation that drags its feet to make decisions and flounders in forcing ahead purposefully is soon consigned to the back-alley of history. Why should governments (and nations that are ill-fated to have them) be any different?
Post Script: The UPA government faces a trust vote on the 22nd of July. Several Members of Parliament (I couldn't bring myself to prefix the "Hon'ble") will be brought out from jail so they could vote ("all hands on deck - rapists and murderers first").
Post Post Script: The cast of this drama is dominated by two individuals. Your political inclinations will decide which of Manmohan Singh or Prakash Karat you will call the hero. However, neither will vote on the no-confidence motion. They were never elected to the House. TVR Shenoy writes more...
Technorati Tags: Nuclear Deal, IAEA, UPA Government, Samajwadi Party, CPM, Congress party, Prakash Karat, Manmohan Singh, Amar Singh, criminalization of Indian politics, India
Being a democracy is bad enough to push radical reforms through - every decision has to be debated ad-infinitum and often by people who just don't get it. And imagine a colatition - an euphemism to describe a bundle of opportunistic once-goons-now-politicians trading horses of every size and shape - working within a democracy. If Apple hadn't staked a claim on the phrase and put it as their address, we could have justly termed the situation as "Infinite Loop".
A corporation that drags its feet to make decisions and flounders in forcing ahead purposefully is soon consigned to the back-alley of history. Why should governments (and nations that are ill-fated to have them) be any different?
Post Script: The UPA government faces a trust vote on the 22nd of July. Several Members of Parliament (I couldn't bring myself to prefix the "Hon'ble") will be brought out from jail so they could vote ("all hands on deck - rapists and murderers first").
Post Post Script: The cast of this drama is dominated by two individuals. Your political inclinations will decide which of Manmohan Singh or Prakash Karat you will call the hero. However, neither will vote on the no-confidence motion. They were never elected to the House. TVR Shenoy writes more...
Technorati Tags: Nuclear Deal, IAEA, UPA Government, Samajwadi Party, CPM, Congress party, Prakash Karat, Manmohan Singh, Amar Singh, criminalization of Indian politics, India
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