More things change more and more they tend to repeat what happened earlier.
Nothing is more true than the current fiasco playing out in the Indian Political arena.
The moves and counter-moves in highly unstable Indian political environment have reduced the dignity and eminence of the highest house - Rashtrapati Bhavan to mere contest of one-upmanship.
For all her strategy (or lack of it?) & the way she operates, Mamata Banerjee has proved to be more shrewd than the major ruling party, Congress.
Sure, Mamata Banerjee got the taste of her own medicine from the ever-so-unreliable, street-smart and wily politician like Mulayam Yadav.
By establishing his son comfortably in UP CM's chair, Mulayam Yadav, is set to play major role on the national scene, contrary to assumptions that he bowed out of UP CM post, due to his age.
All the ramifications of the last few days, would point out to a sad and alarming reality of our political endeavors. Congress and BJP are both losing the plot. And at shockingly fast rate.
If the last weeks events are anything to go by, one conclusion is loud and clear. This is not about election of Pranab Mukharjee to Presidents office anymore.
This all maneuvering by almost all the major players indicate that we could have next General Election not necessarily in 2014, even earlier than that.
While that could be good news for the regional parties, the influence of the two pillars, two 'national political parties' - Congress and BJP, is diminishing day-by-day.
Even BJP, with 'its galaxy of many leaders', cannot exploit the one of the worst performance of Congress, to its advantage.
Theoretically, congress with it's supposedly best performance of 206 seats since 1991, should be stronger enough to function in the government properly. However, this could be the all-time low for the grand old party.
That spells a terrible news bulletin for our nation!
We could even witness situation like 1996-98 where there were three different central governments within three years.
The official cost of conducting a general election every five years is approximately 10,000 crores.
The moot question is, do we afford a election or possibly, more general elections in the near-future?
Especially in present-day situation of low-growth coupled with ever-increasing inflation, instability in the polity is lackluster scenario.
