Saturday, August 25, 2007

Government or No Government, Elections or No Elections

I am not sure what we will be seeing in the coming weeks. We could see another Election with the government standing firm for the Indo-US N-Deal against the pressure of Left [OR] We could see the lost face of one of the most admired politician cum reformist of our days [our beloved PM Manmohanji].

What is happening in the minds of the Left parties is bizarre, if they don't like anything American, they could have withdrawn support when the talks for this deal actually began or before it could have been signed. Why do the rambling when the deal is about to be operationalized. The govt. decided on the deal, the govt. should be the one who worries about when to operationalize it. Hence, there should be no reason for the Left parties to be worried about that. Mind you they(Left) are not part of the govt. They are just providing support to the Indian govt. run by (UPA) to make sure that the NDA don't make it to power.

Now, having said that, I am flummoxed by the damn reason why the Left parties want to run their own government (they just have some fifty-odd seats) with not even being the single largest party. They claim they are voicing concerns over the dependence on US for everything and becoming a strategic partner with USA for most stuff [like voting for war against Iran or whatever US' grand global strategy is]. But that's their party ideology, not a ideology of the Indian govt. (or the UPA) to wait on the N-Deal [which has been described as a break-through in Indo-US relationships].

My point is, Left is not part of the govt., Left doesn't run the govt. and Left just supports the UPA govt. from the outside, then why is it worried about the decisions of the govt. where, the Cabinet has approved the deal. If Left had been part of the govt. and the above had happened, it would have been really worthy of a call.

But now, I have lost faith in Left's credibility as a good leader for the nation. I would suggest anybody who is wooing for the Left parties to reconsider their decision seriously. Since, they are just not cutting it. If this kind of opposition had been happening before the N-Deal could be signed or discussed, there would have been no deal in the first place and India and the Indian govt. would not be blamed by foreign powers. Now the Indian govt. stands to lose its pretty face of growth, but it might also cause hesitation for other nations to negotiate for any kind of deal.

But I believe, if the govt. had done similar to what other countries had done [like getting the nuke technology from China], then it is a Left-Left situation and Left would have been praising the deals.

No matter what happens in the coming weeks, the Indian people would at one point do the below:
1. Don't provide a hung verdict (in the next elections), when you create an Indian govt. because, if an Indian govt. loses its face, it is as shameful for an Indian as it has been for the govt.
2. Don't again put the Left with a chance (may be lesser number of seats) like this again.
3. Either it is NDA/UPA/BJP/Cong, we have to work to provide a stable govt. and a healthy opposition.

My personal opinion for the past few days is, our PM will stand on his ground, and most probably we will be facing the Elections in Nov 2007 or early 2008.