Retrospect & Prospects of Coalition Politics in India

Abstract

The experiment of coalition politics in India is not new one.  The age of political uniformity was not seen in 1967 after 4the general Vidhan Sabha Elections in some of the states.  It was the beginning of coalition politics in the state politics of India.  In 1977, it was the first occasion when non-congress government took oath and some likeminded allied parties formed coalition government at centre level under the leadership of Sh. Morarji Desai.  But this government could not complete its tenure and fell very soon in the last of 1979.  After the ten years later the same political scenario was seen as was in 1977.  After the 9^th Lok Sabha Elections in 1989 any political party was not in position to form government with full majority.  Therefore, the experiment of coalition was made to form coalition government.  Therefore, most of the political scholars assume the fact that the era from 1989 to 2009, was an era of coalition politics in India.  All the governments during this time were formed with the help of regional allies and remained hung governments with minority support. Consequently in 2014 BJP made a collision Govt. with new look in Indian politics. The present paper highlights the retrospects and prospects of Coalition politics in India.