Since 80's we have seen emeregence of many regionalistic parties (reflected by the growing size of ballot papers). These parties try to build their votebank on the basis of regionalism, religion, caste, language etc. They try to showcase themselves as a representative or rather protectors of interest of one community. Some showcase themselves as protectors of yadavs or lower caste community or minority communities like Muslims (RJD, SP), some go as protectors of dalits, SC n ST's (BSP), some are formed on the basis of hindutva (Jana Sangh, Shiv Sena), some try to bring out linguistic or caste appeal (MNS, AIADMK, DMK, TDP). List is endless (worrying factor for Indian stability). When these parties go into election, they showcase themselves as fighters against secular parties like BJP (To me this is the biggest sign of hypocrisy . On one side they are trying to generate vote bank by dividing communities and on other side they distance themselves away from non-secular parties). One party which always plays a vital role in coalition government formed by congregration of all these regionalitic parties is CPI-M which again has presence mainly in couple of states like Kerala and West Bengal. Do we see any political party which has been based on the agenda of development of India as a whole or growth of Indian community and culture? Forunately the answer is YES. Though they are hardly few in number and have hardly any or no presence in Indian political system but their emergence is a good sign for Indian democracy and people. Parties like Bharat Punarnirman Dal (BPD) formed Shobit Gupta or Lok Paritran formed by Tanmay Rajpurohit or The Youth for Equality (YFE) — a political party formed by medical, engineering and law students. The biggest differences that one can notice between these 2 types of "smaller parties" is in the area of members of party and their agenda. The newly formed parties are formed by educated guys (dont interpret education as having some degree) who have intentions of working towards the development of Indian community as a whole as compared to the regional parties like RJD, SP etc who have huge list of chargesheeted people and try to select people on the basis of their power (may it be goon power) and money. The biggest apathy is that after so many years of independence, we are not progressing as a nation. Rather parties like MNS or moral police like Ram Sena are taking country backwards. Why dont people understand that pride in one culture or language is one thing and suppressing other culutre or community people is other. The entire country was left astounded when these so called moral police tried to take our community towards talibanism and our state n central government just did nothing. I am amazed how our judicial system still allows people like these to get away with such henious acts. I am still a firm beliver of the fact that no criminal can exist without the support of law keepers (rest is for you to interpret)

We, as Indians, need stable government in the center and states. Government which primarily looks at development from the grass root level and one that looks to tackle lack of primary education, nutrition, health care, infra structure, cleaniness. We rank among the Top 10 in terms of countries having maximum corruption and poverty; leave aside education. We need transparency in the way the different government bodies run and central government needs to make every babu or bureaucrat or government official accountable for his work. It does not mean privatisation but professionalism in governance is required. To carry on all these tasks, we need a stable government in center with one agenda (the same one with which they went to people during elections and not a merged agendas of several parties). Coalition, to me, is definitely not a solution to Indian growth. We have seen how coalitions work in past. During BJP coalitions, when BJP tried to introduce some law, its coalition partners like TDP started threatening to withdraw their support. Same thing happened to Congress and this time CPI-M was into action. In coalition, every one has vested interest for themselves. It does not mean that a clean majority of BJP or Congress will ensure a great government but at least give them a chance to take some actions independently instead of thinking of satisfying their coalition partners. I think Omar Abdullah's speech during Congress Party's trust vote brings out the character of our Indian maligned MP's.

Country like US a two party system and are highly successful. Do we need similar system or our cry for democracy is killed by not allowing people to form their own parties rather than joining one of the 2 parties. We need a solution to our political system soon.