A game of ALLIANCING

I felt most sorry for this democracy when Atal Bihari Vajpayee's 13 day old government was overthrown by the Third Front Alliance. An alliance was realised and brought into existence within few days all in the "interest" of this nation which has a huge population of under-privileged and over-looked communities. Various losing parties with a bleak patronage came together to form a ruling government. Even though these parties had parallel / non-colliding thoughts and interests but had one common goal - POWER. A common manifesto came out in a flash and suddenly we saw some great friendships broiling. The political fraternity truly understood the potential of alliancing then.

Consider a scenario - Congress with Muslim League as one of its ally contests the elections. They are able to harness Muslim votes due to the pro-Muslim image created. They win the election and form the government. Then suddenly in between their tenure there is a fallout between the two due to some boiling issue and Congress breaks its ties with Muslim League. But, to keep its numbers right, Congress joins hands with RSS. So what should be derived out of this? That Congress has back-tracked on its loyalty towards Muslims and suddenly has become a Hindu supporter.

My point is, how does our constitution allow such a big loop-hole in our democracy. Parties are allowed to shift loyalties, change policies in a flash to keep their vested interests alive. We have seen parties trying out all possible moves to keep the numbers right in case of a fall-out of a ruling alliance. Back-door agreements are made between parties in exchange of support. Nothing happens in a clean manner. India and its integrity is kept at stake just to retain power. WHAT A MOCKERY OF DEMOCRACY!!!!

I wish to raise an alarm regarding this. I want that constitution should change and not allow political party alliances to change after elections have started. And I want Indian citizens to endorse this move.

Constitution should be ammended to ensure the following:
* POLITICAL PARTIES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CREATE AND DECLARE ALLIANCES ONLY BEFORE THE ELECTIONS BEGIN (because that determines their policies and loyalties).
* AN ALLIANCE HAS TO BE A REGISTERED ENTITY.
* THE ALLIANCES SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE ONCE THE ELECTIONS BEGIN.
* IF THERE IS A FALL-OUT IN THE RULING ALLIANCE, IT SHOULD MEAN END OF THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT.

I may not be factually correct, but I know that this game of ALLIANCING is causing a very big damage to us and us alone. We citizens are the only losers and so we need to raise our voice.