National government

By SN Mamoon Dhaka
24 October 2005, 18:00 PM
The recent political developments in Germany is quite interesting and thought- provoking . The social democrats and the Christian democrats have allied together to form a coalition government. The former have been allocated eight ministries and the Christian democrats six. We think It's a very healthy trend.

In our political scenario if our major political parties could rally round and form a national government, the whole country could have been benefited. We could have bade farewell to hartals, loss of working hours, vandalism, anarchy, mud-slinging, character assassination, terrorism, etc. They could effectively combat the fast growing pointless, self destructive religious terrorism, which has unfortunately emerged as top priority on our national agenda. It is a more virulent virus than HIV.

We feel that there ought to be a mechanism which would rather force them -- the sane political parties to form a coalition and cooperate with each other. The country, the economy and the vast majority of the population can be saved by this phenomenon only.