Previously there have been minority governments in Bihar ( 1990 and 2000) and both Rajasthan and Mahrashtra have had minority governments in the past as well..Similarly Haryana and Punjab too have had post electoral minority gvernments in the past, so one wonders why all the fuss now ? Has the Congress forgotten its own past and is showing its usual double standards that too after having single digit number of seats in the state..
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=K8uLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=minority+government+in+states&source=bl&ots=GFi7KT_0qX&sig=la4eydzuunUVcNhycLtFSjmCyZE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TsASVPKtComGuASv_4CADQ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=minority%20government%20in%20states&f=false

This is pure mathmatics and no fuss is there. Let BJP form government on invitation of Lt. Governor. This will be minority government. a minority government is sustained only if othr parties cooperate- may be indirectly- by abstaining from voting on confidence motion and money bills. If BJP can make such arrangement, okay. If they engineer defections or indulge in horse trading, well let them do. But then they cannot claim that they have higher moral standards and differ from others. There is nothing more and nothing less. This is so simple.

Very true...Sheila Dixit for once has shown that she can think on sensible lines, but will the others do so???? That is the question!

Previously there have been minority governments in Bihar ( 1990 and 2000) and both Rajasthan and Mahrashtra have had minority governments in the past as well..Similarly Haryana and Punjab too have had post electoral minority gvernments in the past, so one wonders why all the fuss now ? Has the Congress forgotten its own past and is showing its usual double standards that too after having single digit number of seats in the state..
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=K8uLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=minority+government+in+states&source=bl&ots=GFi7KT_0qX&sig=la4eydzuunUVcNhycLtFSjmCyZE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TsASVPKtComGuASv_4CADQ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=minority%20government%20in%20states&f=false

This is pure mathmatics and no fuss is there. Let BJP form government on invitation of Lt. Governor. This will be minority government. a minority government is sustained only if othr parties cooperate- may be indirectly- by abstaining from voting on confidence motion and money bills. If BJP can make such arrangement, okay. If they engineer defections or indulge in horse trading, well let them do. But then they cannot claim that they have higher moral standards and differ from others. There is nothing more and nothing less. This is so simple.

The same was the case before and probably will be so now as well...But in the interest of the nation BJP should form a government since it is the party with the largest number of seats and falling short of just 5 seats..

Previously there have been minority governments in Bihar ( 1990 and 2000) and both Rajasthan and Mahrashtra have had minority governments in the past as well..Similarly Haryana and Punjab too have had post electoral minority gvernments in the past, so one wonders why all the fuss now ? Has the Congress forgotten its own past and is showing its usual double standards that too after having single digit number of seats in the state..
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=K8uLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=minority+government+in+states&source=bl&ots=GFi7KT_0qX&sig=la4eydzuunUVcNhycLtFSjmCyZE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TsASVPKtComGuASv_4CADQ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=minority%20government%20in%20states&f=false

This is pure mathmatics and no fuss is there. Let BJP form government on invitation of Lt. Governor. This will be minority government. a minority government is sustained only if othr parties cooperate- may be indirectly- by abstaining from voting on confidence motion and money bills. If BJP can make such arrangement, okay. If they engineer defections or indulge in horse trading, well let them do. But then they cannot claim that they have higher moral standards and differ from others. There is nothing more and nothing less. This is so simple.

The same was the case before and probably will be so now as well...But in the interest of the nation BJP should form a government since it is the party with the largest number of seats and falling short of just 5 seats..

okay. then they will have to again say that they engineered defection in 'natinoal interest' and horse trading is okay in 'national interest'. The government will fall if other parties oppose them. This is sheer and simple arithmetic. May be Congress does not understand 'national interest'. For AAM AADAMI party, Congres and BJP both are corrupt and villains and agents of Ambani and Adani. 'Plain facts' go against the perception of so called BJP linked national interest. 'National interest' may demand that BJP form government even where they have nil or negligible presence. Parliamentary politics is game of numbers only.

Previously there have been minority governments in Bihar ( 1990 and 2000) and both Rajasthan and Mahrashtra have had minority governments in the past as well..Similarly Haryana and Punjab too have had post electoral minority gvernments in the past, so one wonders why all the fuss now ? Has the Congress forgotten its own past and is showing its usual double standards that too after having single digit number of seats in the state..
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=K8uLAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA130&lpg=PA130&dq=minority+government+in+states&source=bl&ots=GFi7KT_0qX&sig=la4eydzuunUVcNhycLtFSjmCyZE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TsASVPKtComGuASv_4CADQ&ved=0CGQQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=minority%20government%20in%20states&f=false

This is pure mathmatics and no fuss is there. Let BJP form government on invitation of Lt. Governor. This will be minority government. a minority government is sustained only if othr parties cooperate- may be indirectly- by abstaining from voting on confidence motion and money bills. If BJP can make such arrangement, okay. If they engineer defections or indulge in horse trading, well let them do. But then they cannot claim that they have higher moral standards and differ from others. There is nothing more and nothing less. This is so simple.

The same was the case before and probably will be so now as well...But in the interest of the nation BJP should form a government since it is the party with the largest number of seats and falling short of just 5 seats..

okay. then they will have to again say that they engineered defection in 'natinoal interest' and horse trading is okay in 'national interest'. The government will fall if other parties oppose them. This is sheer and simple arithmetic. May be Congress does not understand 'national interest'. For AAM AADAMI party, Congres and BJP both are corrupt and villains and agents of Ambani and Adani. 'Plain facts' go against the perception of so called BJP linked national interest. 'National interest' may demand that BJP form government even where they have nil or negligible presence. Parliamentary politics is game of numbers only.

There is absolutely no question here of nil or negligible presence here since BJP has the largest number of seats , and also all the seats in lok Sabha ..

We need to have the common sense to realise that when parties become stubborn by not offering support to the party with the largest number of seats , the election commision or LT or whoever is responsible should automatically merge all the seats and form the government with the largest party having more say in the formation etc...This makes sense and puts an end to horse trading etc which has become the norm now by all parties ...