Source: Dawn
Finally, Delhi is going to have a government by the Aam Aadmi Party with outside support of the Congress. But the government formation has turned out to be primarily an exercise by the three protagonists — the AAP, the BJP and the Congress — in calling one another’s bluff.
In the era of coalition politics Delhi is having a coalition government without a common minimum program chalked out by the partners. The two parties have come together ostensibly to avoid a constitutional crisis of sorts that would have been imposed on the people with fresh election within weeks of an election and a drain on the public exchequer.
The real purpose of this government formation for which the three main contenders were locked in a triangular contest is, however, to beat one another at their own game.
For the first time in India’s electoral history, the party (BJP) securing the maximum number of seats (32 out of a total of 70) has decided to sit in the opposition instead of exploring the possibility of forming a government which has for years become a euphemism for horse-trading.
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