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"Fractured mandate forces coalition"

Jharkhand has seen five coalition governments of alignment and realignment

RANCHI: Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda, an independent MLA, on Tuesday said it would be very difficult to end coalition politics which will stay as long as the people wished. When asked whether he backed the second Administrative Reforms Commission's recommendation that coalition partners realigning need to seek fresh mandate, Mr. Koda, who heads the UPA coalition in the State, said, ``We have to see how practical it is.''

``Coalition will stay as long as the people throw up fractured mandates,'' the Chief Minister said while evading direct reply as to whether the Commission's recommendation was appropriate in the context of Jharkhand which has seen five governments, all coalitions of alignment and realignment, in six years.

The Commission's recommendation that parties leaving a ruling coalition midway would have to seek a fresh mandate, comes five days after the All India Forward Bloc withdrew its outside support to the Koda Government. Stating that everything depended on the political situation at a given period, Mr. said coalitions were formed on party policies, manifestos and common minimum programme. ``The Commission has given just a report, and the Centre will have to examine it,'' Mr. Koda said while emphasising that coalition has been there for the last two decades in the country.

PTI

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