Words like ‘hidden hand’ and ‘establishment’ are in use in this country since long but now a new word ‘alien’ has also been introduced by our politicians in the dictionary of politics. There are two diametrically opposed views about the composition of government in this country. There are people who say whosoever wins the elections must win it by absolute majority so that he finds no constitutional bottleneck in the way of translating into reality his manifesto. They are of the view that a ruling political party which has poor numerical strength to form a government on its own steam has to, per force, form a coalition government to run the show and the greatest drawback of such a government is that it always get blackmailed at the hands of its coalition partners.
The detractors of the above-mentioned view , however, look at it quite differently. According to them experience of hindsight reveals that whenever the nation gave absolute majority to any party in the past its head misused his powers and turned the country into his personal fiefdom. In a coalition government the coalition partners keep a check and balance on the prime minister and the chief minister whichever the case may be, thus obviating any possibility of misuse of power by them.
Both points of views have merit.
In the coming elections those MPAs and MNAs, who are known as independents are going to play a very important role in the formation of government. If a substantial number of independents made it to the assemblies, they would assume the role of kingmakers. In such a scenario, any political party desirous of seeing its leader as the next PM or CM would have to win over their political support and, obviously, whosoever, greased their palms would be getting these coveted jobs. Can anybody beat Zardari in the art of making and beating political alliances?
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