The Minister of
Information and Broadcasting Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad has said
that it is the collective responsibility of us all, more so
of the politicians to make our democratic system more responsible,
acceptable and workable. He said that the over 50 years of our
democratic functioning has established that India will only
be governed by a democratic system. There shall be no military
rule or the repetition of any 1975 Emergency type aberration.
Opening a panel
discussion on " The Politics of Coalition: Progressive
or Regressive", organised by the FICCI Ladies Organisation,
here today, Shri Prasad said that coalition have come into being
because the Congress Party which ruled the country for a long
time declined but without a matching development of other political
parties at the national level. He said people’s wish in favour
of a coalition should be fully respected.
Shri Prasad
said that to make a coalition succeed, four fundamental components
are essential. These are; a) it must have a recognised leader,
b) there must be a dominant party around which other smaller
parties flourish, c) a Common Minimum Programme and d) basic
mutual trust and reciprocity among the constituents. He said
the present coalition at the centre has succeeded due to the
above components and so has it worked in West Bengal. Good governance
must occupy the central space in the functioning of our polity,
Shri Prasad said.
Those who participated
in the discussion included Members of Parliament, S/Shri Amar
Singh (SP), Nilotpal Basu (CPM), T. Subbarami Reddy (Cong) and
Praful Patel (NCW).
