The last week and half has shown Indian politics in bad light. It has been highly immoral behaviour of the political parties from BJP, Congress and the Left which has ordinary Indian citizen wonder "What's going on ? Is this how far the politicians will go to clutch on to their political careers ?"
The UPA government in the centre called for trust vote on July 22nd over the Nuclear Deal after their 4 year long political friendship with the Left parties broke away citing the miscrepancies in the N-deal. The UPA became a minority and in came Samajwadi Party to their rescue with their 39 MP's. Mulayam Singh and Amar Singh, the leaders of SP had other political
compulsions like the growing clout of their bitter rival in their home state UP, BSP chief and CM of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawathi. Reports said the congress and SP struck a deal behind the doors in return for SP's support to the Deal.
Meanwhile, the opposition party in the centre BJP, has gone all out to defeat the government in the trust vote. Even with all the support of the UPA MP's, the government still falls short of majority mark of 272 by about a dozen votes. This forced Congress to talk to small parties like JMM with 5 MPs, JD(S) with 3 MPs and RLD with 3 MPs and some independents.
Each regional party had their own conditions. JMM chief Shibu Soren wanted his Coal Ministry back and an undertaking that he will be made Chief Minister of his home state Jharkhand.
JD(S) leader and former Prime Minister, Deve Gowda, wants a berth in the central ministry for his son and former CM of Karnataka, Mr.Kumaraswamy and greater say in the government. RLD supremo, Ajit Singh, wants the Lucknow Airport named after his father and a ministry for him. So, even though, the trust vote is about the N-Deal, none of our distinguised leaders of all parties bother about India's future. Both BJP and Congress are trying to woo these small parties.
Apart from this, many MPs claim they have been offered 25-50 crores for their single vote. Is this how our MPs behave regarding the most important deal of our country, the N-deal with USA. Many Corporates are suspected to have thrown in thousands of crores of money to the parties they support to poach MPs.
Is it politically moral for all the MPs to act in this deragatory manner when they have been elected to putforth people's problems ? We, as people of India should be ashamed to have elected these money and power hungry people as our constituent's MPs.
Next time you people elect to vote, please vote for the one who would look into our problems and we should try to bring an end to this coalition governments in which parties, small or big, have their own agenda and dont care about people's agenda. These coalition governments bring only confusion and chaos rather than country's growth.
