A Constitutional Coalition Government ?
Yesterday , my friend Gurudatta suggested renaming of the OPPOSITION in Lok Sabha to " FACILITATING " parties
Idea is to get these parties to change their mindset from simply
" opposing " anything and everything that the GOVERNING ( Gurudatta thinks this a better way to describe RULING ), party proposes / suggests
Apparently , he wants the FACILITATING
parties to look for " Areas of Agreement
" on various issues rather than harp on " Areas of Disagreements "
And
then tell the GOVERNING party :
" Let us , for the moment , leave aside issues where we do NOT agree. Let us move ahead and
implement where we do agree "
I
would like to suggest how such a ATTITUDE
CHANGE can be brought about
Here
is how :
Make ALL parties , PARTNERS in GOVERNING
By a Constitutional Amendment whereby MOST ( if not ALL ) political parties get Ministerial positions in proportion to the percentage of seats won in the
Lok Sabha
Of course , among many other things , this would require increasing
the size of the Cabinet from current 15 %
to ( say ) , 20 % of the Lok Sabha
strength
That
means , we can have 108 Ministers in
Lok Sabha of 543 members
Should
we decide to keep this at a round figure of 100 Ministers , then
party-wise distribution ( of Ministers ) would be , approximately as follows :
# BJP............. 52
# INC............. 9
# AIADMK...... 7
# AITC.......... 6
# BJD.......... 4
# SS............. 3
# TDP.......... 3
# TRS.......... 2
# Rest......... 14 ( They
would require some Rotation Principle )
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Total................ 100
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I strongly feel that this arrangement would give ALL parties a " Sense of Enlarged Participation " , making them feel far
more responsible and constructive
We have all heard : Yathaa Raja ,
Tathaa Praja ( Citizens follow the examples set by the Ruler )
It is time we set an example to 1.3 Billion Indians , by
implementing " Subka Saath , Subka Vikas
" , in Lok Sabha which we call our " Temple
of Democracy "
There is need for some truly " Out of Box " thinking and show the World , a 21st Century
way of governing
!
On this birthday of Mahatma
Gandhi , let us unite once again , as we did in 1942 ( Quit India )
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02
Oct 2016 ( Gandhi Jayanti )
www.hemenparekh.in / blogs
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with
regards,
hemen parekh
Marol , Mumbai , India
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