Friday, August 31, 2012

Mulayam's Prime ministerial ambition

Politically rejuvenated Samajwadi party supremo and former UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav after winning the two-thirds majority in the recently held UP assembly elections and in the midst of falling rate of popularity of the UPA Government at the Centre to which he extends outside support, he has started a move of reviving a Third Front to realize his prime ministerial ambition with the support of Non-Congress and BJP political parties in 2014 after the Lok Sabha elections. He has already given a clear hint of his desire for becoming Prime Minister. But if the past experience is anything to go by, the third front exercise has proved a total failure and its governments have been short-lived. Charan Singh, VP Singh, Chandrashekha, Devegowda and Gujaral governments are the glaring examples. The dead lock in Parliament over the issue of Coalgate scandal has given Mulayam’s to mobilize support for the formation of Third which could give alternative to Congress-led UPA and BJP-led NDA. It is because of the rigidity of the main opposition Party BJP with its demand of nothing less than Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's resignation over Coalgate issue. It looks completely ridiculous because no verdict of punishment is declared without the proper trial of the case. It is not possible for a ruling party to concede the opposition demand of resignation of the PM every now and then. UPA is prepared to discuss the opposition charge over the Coalgate issue threadbare. This is the best way. And the entire nation would know from the detailed televised discussion over the issue in Parliament and then would decide who is guilty or who is not or both are involved in Coalgate scandal. BJP appears to be impatient to grab power through forcing mid-term elections in the wake of the falling graph of Congress-led UPA's popularity among the people. If the opinion polls conducted by different TV news Channels are anything to go by, Mulayam’s Third Front mission gets a shot and BJP’s lust for power goads it to force mid-term elections in 2013 to reap the benefit. Now as far as Mulayam's move of forming a third front is concerned, SP, Left parties and TDP demand not only discussion on the Coalgate issue in Parliament, which is correct in all respects, but also a judicial probe into coal blocks allocation and cancellation of licenses failng which they threatened to launch a countrywide agitation in its bid to defame both BJP and Congress among the people of the nation. Without the support of either Congress or BJP, no front government can be formed in the given political scenario of the nation. Mulayam Singh Yadav can be accepted as leader by Left parties and TDP only. But his arch rival in UP BSP supremo and former Chief Minister Mayawati can never join the front led by Mulayam Singh Yadav because she is no less than him in poitical stature in his home state. Will the BJD supremo and Odisha CM Naveen Patnayak or AIADMK supremo and TN CM Jayaliththa accept him as leader of the front if ever they join it? If the Congress failed to improve its political position and does not get back power for third consecutive time in 2014, it may support Mulayam-led third Front for a brief period so that he could realize his ambition.

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