Any political journey is filled with the
instances of political parties forming an alliance to run the country. Though
they don’t always share a common ideology, it’s often for the want of gaining
power and meeting the political objectives that bring them together. The
trend of forming an alliance with other parties started during the 90s. What
started this phenomenon is the gradual empowerment of the regional parties.
Unlike in the past, the political discourse today is not restricted to Congress
and BJP. While public support for these parties has gradually decreased, the
regional parties have continued to gain overwhelming support.
Be it the pre-election or the post election
alliance, the fundamental reason behind accommodating other parties’ agenda is
the need to hold on to the power, even if it means shaking hands with the
one-time rival. Looking at some examples of alliances from 2016 assembly polls
to be held we find how these political parties change their support for their
own benefit. The once Congress-TMC alliance is this year against each other.
Congress is joining hands with CPI (M) whereas BJP which was last elections
against TMC, this year is providing an indirect support to this political
party. In this game of gaining the power, every political party gets into
alliance with each other to defeat their respective rival party. But in the
very next elections itself we can see, how they change from friends to enemies
just to survive in the race game.
Thus these joining and breaking of alliances
have been continuing for years and will still be carried forward in the future.
But to comment on the fact that, whether it is a success or a failure story is
very controversial. They tend to fail to focus on the people who will be
actually electing them. Bunches and bunches of promises during campaigns and
after winning the polls forgetting them in a click is the usual trend for these
parties during the elections trauma. Therefore any political alliance is a
success only if they can work for the people of the state or country to make a
better place for the people to live in or else such an alliance is a failure
for both the people as well as the parties.
Sneha Menon
( PG MEDIA 2015-2017)
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