Inder Malhotra

Mar 31, 2010
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Inder Malhotra

Constricting coalitions

Feb 03 : THE way the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government Mark II has functioned since its inspiring victory in the Lok Sabha elections over eight months ago is most disappointing. It has not only belied all hopes of it being more cohesive and effective in discharging its functions this time around but also aggravated the main contradiction in Indian polity: the inevitability of coalitions in New Delhi for the foreseeable future and the utter lack of coalition culture that is showing no signs of developing either. Under these circumstances how can the country’s languishing governance be rescued?

CBI’s badge of dishonour

April.15 : Two Features of the sordid Jagdish Tytler affair are particularly depressing and disgraceful. The first is the Congress Party's malodorous flip-flop. With brazen insensitivity, it first gave Mr Tytler a ticket for the Lok Sabha elections even though two years ago he had been forced to resign from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Cabinet because a judicial commission had indicted him for his role in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots during which nearly 3,000 Sikhs were massacred in the nation's capital. At then the Congress developed cold feet and ordered Mr Tytler to withdraw his candidature (and meted out the same treatment to another 1984 accused, Sajjan Kumar). Why?

Indiscipline, impropriety: Housecleaning required

On the last day of April when the Lok Sabha was, as usual, plunged into bedlam, an angry friend asked me, "How is the conduct of these members of Parliament different from that of Bhajji on the cricket field?" When I answered that it wasn’t, he retorted, "If Bhajji can be punished, then why not recalcitrant MPs?" The next day both of us were elated because Speaker Somnath Chatterjee — his patience exhausted, as all his appeals for respect for Parliament’s dignity and decorum had fallen on deaf ears — named 32 trouble-makers and referred their case to Parliament’s committee on privileges.

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