Coalition Government in Indian Democracy, A Critical Study

Political Science

In ancient times, many countries of the world were governed under the system of monarchy. King Maharaja used to make rules according to their scriptures and culture and implement them in their states. These rules were common to all. The king was said to be an incarnation of God. All the people and ministers used to follow the orders of the king literally. Time changed and world politics changed. Due to foreign invasions, independence revolution and many movements emerged in many countries. When the country started getting freedom from the clutches of kings and maharajas, a new feeling emerged in the minds of the local people that why should all the people be ruled together. This spirit of the people gave birth to democracy. People should have a leader made by the people for the people and work for the welfare of the people, this is called democracy. In other words, the representative elected by the people should work for the benefit of the people, this is the only democracy in which all the people are free and equal to the representative of the state. The rule of democracy is that the leader of the majority party will take care of the state. That is, the leader of the majority party will become the Chief Minister or Prime Minister. The leader of the party which has more MLAs will become the Chief Minister and the leader of the party which has more MPs will become the Prime Minister. The conclusion is that the party which gets the majority will form the government. Sometimes the situation becomes such that no party knows the right amount of votes, in such a situation a party tries to form a government with majority by forming an alliance with another party, it is called coalition government. The history of coalition government in India is old. The tradition of forming a coalition government in India has been going on since 1953. Be it the state government or the central government, the position of the coalition government is being seen at all places.

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