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..
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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 ..
Despite largest number, BJP canot form government in Delhi without nginering defections, may be in 'national interest'. I dd not talk of 'negligible or no presence' in Delhi. If BJP govrnment alone can look after national interest, that party should be allowed to form government eve where presence is negligible- viz. Orissa, Tamilnadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Tripura.
It is not a matter of 'national interest'. It is a matter of numbers and BJP has no numerial strength to form governmet in Delhi without some immoral action of defections and horse trading. This is a very simple fact and needs no discussion or elucidation.