At the recently concluded India Economic Summit, Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh came as close as he could to admitting how hard it was to run a coalition government in which every minister functioned as though he was a king regardless of the seats his party brought to the coalition table; the difficulties in evolving a coherent government policy when all ministers demanded exceptions from it as their right; and how difficult decision-making was when little or no collective thinking went into it.
To most he sounded resigned to his fate, which is just as well. There are so many contenders for his job in his own party, it is actually the coalition partners who are keeping Deshmukh in place. Maharashtra is an absorbing study in coalition politics. Unlike Kerala where the arithmetic is so precise that smaller parties can afford to desert a coalition only at their peril, in Maharashtra, a smart partner can dictate a lot including the choice of chief minister and the decisions he takes. Add to this Sharadrao Pawar's personality that looms behind Deshmukh like a benign banyan tree that nevertheless grows ruthlessly, and you can understand Deshmukh's lament better.
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To most he sounded resigned to his fate, which is just as well. There are so many contenders for his job in his own party, it is actually the coalition partners who are keeping Deshmukh in place. Maharashtra is an absorbing study in coalition politics. Unlike Kerala where the arithmetic is so precise that smaller parties can afford to desert a coalition only at their peril, in Maharashtra, a smart partner can dictate a lot including the choice of chief minister and the decisions he takes. Add to this Sharadrao Pawar's personality that looms behind Deshmukh like a benign banyan tree that nevertheless grows ruthlessly, and you can understand Deshmukh's lament better.
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Reminds me of Marathi movie .. vazir ..
Vilasrao Deshmukh is Ashok saraf and
Sharad Pawar is Vikram Gokhale
But this movie won't end in 3 hours like vazir.