National v/s Regional parties

Elections are again round the corner. With changing times Indian Political arena has had a sea change. The era of single party is over and coalition governments are the in-thing. But is it good for us? I mean coalition formed just to come in power or to keep someone out of power without common ideology or vision. Where will this take our country. The small parties who become a part of coalition start bargaining for portfolios even if they don't have a competent person for the post, and major party has to bow to their whims and fancies inorder to gain those numbers. The main party is not able to do what they wrote in their manifesto..on basis of which poeple voted for them...is it not cheating with the people then? This is all evident from last two governance that the PM or his party became helpless in carrying out developmental programmes or ideology they represent just because to please their coalition partners or to meet out their unusual demands. The Vajpayee government fights with mamta, jayalalita or mayawati -- a case in point. The Manmohan Singh govt not able to carry out its development programmes due to Left parties nonsensical demands. Infact 123 agreement became a reality when they had to do away with left partners. JMM Chief had to be re-included in the cabinet so as to prove majority even if that had to bring shame on their previous stand. So is the growing power of regional parties good for the development of country or regressive? Can you imagine a Mayawati with good numbers in UP become PM of the whole country? Are such leaders liable to represent the whole country by just bringing good numbers in only one state? 

In my opinion we should think different in different elections. When we vote for local body elections then issues of our localities and who will serve our locality better should take predominance. When we vote for assembly elections then regional or national party who will bring good governance to the state should be voted to power. But when we vote for national elections then national parties who represent a larger population and cater to national issues and demands should be given more weightage than regional parties who are good for the welfare of state only. in fact we should do away with so many party system and their should be bipolar politics in centre like in US or UK. Then only we can eradicate this political bargaining and purchasing of numbers to gain power. See how the third front has united but with as many candidates for PM post. They are making a mockery of the most prestigious post. Like they did with the most honourable award Bharat Ratna in recent past, when all parties wanted their leader to be bestowed with the prestigious award. Just prior to elections, Mulayam, Lalu and Paswan have de-alienated from Congress as they think that by going alone they can garner more seats and hence will have better bargaining position. Do we need such leaders and representatives? Will they think of us or themselves? Then we should not complain that they don't work or politicians are corrupt or useless as we only choose such people to rule us.

We are campaigning to vote against criminals in this elections. On the contrary, BJP is inducting same lady whom they criticsed for corruption in past - Where is their ideology? Varun Gandhi episode and drama attached to it - Is this a party of literates? Why reconstruction of Ram Mandir comes in forefront when they need vote and after elections go in oblivion to emerge back when another election is due? How many elections will they need to really do something for the temple that brought them to Indian politics? They always criticise Congress but behave the same when they come in power - so what is the difference? Like wise Congress speak of dalits, Muslims, poverty in every elections. But still atleast these two parties think of development of the country too. But what about regional parties? What strategies or gameplan they have for national interest apart from their own self interest? What is RJD without Lalu, SP without Mulayam, BSP without Mayawati, or TDP without Naidu? Can they give us a good government? The EC and Supreme Court should stop post-poll alliance as that is a cheating with common man. As many parties fight with each other and then come to join hands to gain power and people see all that with feeling of being fooled. Only pre-poll alliance should be given political acceptance and if MPs cross party line then they should be expelled for that term even if they are of sizeable numbers because they were voted to power from a party platform. Many had voted to them as they represented a certain party and were following their ideology. 

We should do a rethink of our electoral format and stop this political buffonery else this nation will go down and disintegrate. I would like to call all people to vote for right candidates who will work for their constituency and help in development of the nation as a whole. Stop thinking on caste, religion or political basis in casting vote as when parties/candidates are not loyal then why should we be loyal to certain party. When they think of their personal gains then we should also vote for candidates who will bring development to us. We should avoid voting for candidates with criminal background or linkage even if they stand from our favourite party ticket. In the end, i would like all to think whether we should give national parties more importance or regional parties in voting for MP elections.... So think before you vote as every vote is CRUCIAL and EQUALLY IMPORTANT as it is our own vote..our own preference .. our own right to work for our and our country's development.