For more than 7-8 years now I have been airing this thought to my acquaintances. Why can't BJP and Congress join hands and create a coalition? First and foremost, it will be free of the smaller and often disruptive elements. Secondly it would mean the end of secular/pseudosecular debate which has no meaning and no substance. No party in this nation is secular or communal. Each party has a different brand of communalism or secularism. Each party champions the cause of this or that religion in the name of secularism, each party plays vote-bank politics in the name of secularism and each party succeeds in stoking the fires of hatred and strengthening the hands of religious dons whose interest is in keeping the populace backwards so that their business continues unabated. What we need is a coalition that realizes that the true probelms to be addressed are economic in nature. The BJP has always had a liberal outlook as far as economy is concerned and Mr. Manmohan Singh and a few others in Congress have shown their mettle already in this area. In fact, Manmohan Singh has been the progenitor of the entire reforms process.
The effects of such a combination would be:
1. Cooling down of communal fires.
2. Faster economic development.
3. Stabler governments.
4. The persistently coughing communist comrades will be kept out and will not be able to hold the entire nation to ransom.
5. In the long term the nation may even be able to get out of the stranglehold of the Gandhi family.
There will be one bad effect of such a combination:
Life will become rather boring for us passionate political arguers. Currently, it is such a hot and worthy and steamy way of passing time, getting excited, calling others by bad names and feeling great about it. All that would vane and we would be very sad indeed by its passing.
So, what do you think?
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