Just a day to go for the D-Day (Saturday, May 16), when the result of the Indian elections is going to out, but here are many magnitudes of possible government formation talking round the corner. The latest one being the Janata Dal United (JDU) leader Nitish Kumar who has emerged as one of the prime minister contenders, giving a new dimension to the whole discussion. So how did Nitish come to the fore?
As we know, to every probability if the two largest parties Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to garner the majority, then the so called Third Front might take its claim in forming a minority government with outside support from either of the big parties. However, neither Congress nor BJP would like to put down their prime minister nominee until and unless some grave situation arises.
The Third Front, on the other hand, has vowed to form a non-Congress secular government. This further suggests the point that if and only if there would be any likelihood of Third Front getting closer to BJP, it would be on a consensus for a secular prime ministerial candidate, which the LK Advani certainly not fit into.
So, here comes the Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar who has so far inhabited a clean image for not supporting his ally leaders like the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and others on communal sensitive issues. Though the Third Front might not endorse any such mishmash, but the recent breakaway of the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) shows their incongruity in a power game.
Well, parties like TDP and BJD will certainly not let the Left supporting a Congress-led UPA government at Centre, while the now Congress allay in West Bengal Mamata Banerjee too sings the same tone. TDP which was earlier with BJP might support a non-BJP NDA leader taking the lead. It is closely watching the tilt of Left towards Congress which is not contrasting at all.
Hence, in Indian politics you can make your own permutation and combination as all seem well with our political parties when it comes to power. They fought elections on their pseudo principles and pity blame games, but in the final hour they don’t hesitate to seat along, to share the power.
