Power politics is not a morality play! That quotable quote may well be found in Machiavelli’s tracts but it was a statement I often heard former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh make, explaining the many twists and turns that his precariously perched coalition government had to make to remain in office. If power politics is not a morality play, coalition politics is even less so. The world over.
All those who have had a moral issue with the manner in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cobbled together a coalition government in the states of Goa and Manipur should. . .
