Politics in India since Independence We also saw in Chapters that, especially since the late 1960s, various sections had been leaving the Congress fold and forming separate political parties of their own. We also noted the rise of many regional parties in the period after . While these developments weakened the Congress party, they did not enable any single party to replace the Congress. OK, coalitions are the logic of democratic politics in our kind of society.
Does that mean that we will always have coalitions? Or can the national parties consolidate their positions again? I am not worried about whether it is a single party or coalition government. I am more worried about what they do.
Does a coalition government involve more compromises? Can we not have bold and imaginative policies in a coalition?