Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The UPA gave a great lesson

The UPA gave a great lesson in coalition politics – form GoMs whenever allies question you. But these groups achieved little, says Pramod KUMAR

Therefore, to be able to postpone answers to their questions, GoMs were formed. “Whenever we criticised the government’s bad policies, they would compromise and would either send the issue for revision to the concerned ministry or quickly form a GoM,” CPI (M) Politburo member Sitaram Yechury tells B&E. Even the veteran BJP politician Ravi Shankar Prasad holds the same view. According to him, PM Manmohan Singh is himself not happy with the government’s tenure and has marked his own performance a 7 out of 10.

“We feel that whenever government’s policy decisions were put under scanner by the communist parties, the government just formed GoMs to somewhat delay those decisions. And once the Left was out of the government, these pending decisions were imposed on them forcefully,” avers Prasad. Maybe this is the reason why PM himself blames GoMs for being the biggest hurdle in the functioning of UPA. In fact, looking at the number of GoMs formed, it would not be an exaggeration to call the UPA a GoM government.

However, Congress leader and former Commerce Minister Jairam Ramesh feels that GoMs were formed to re-think and to bring about the necessary amendments on some very important policy issues. “To fulfill the responsibility of a coalition government, we were always open to and respected the Left’s suggestions. We tried to do it with the help of GoMs. The opposition is trying to make an issue out of it because they are left with nothing else,” counters Ramesh. Nevertheless, one does feel that a few successful GoMs wouldn’t have harmed!


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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