WHY NOT A COALITION GOVERNMENT!

The experiments with Pakistan’s political strategies have been a matter of shifting sands which always opens us too big a can of worms for the progressive development of this country. With the ruling government setting their campaign in train, the omens are explicitly translating the launching of elections in the near time. On the record, the elections are tacitly, the matter of life and death for the stakeholders, for which the script must be encoded enigmatically to fob off the people. Albeit, the capricious aspect of Pakistan’s politics serves to be a deterrent for everyone to envisage the outcomes, but one could portend the caveats of how things should and shouldn’t be.

With the impending elections making their way in Pakistan, the question that holds an answer is, where the compass will point in this sensational series of Game of Thrones, with the only anomaly that the King has already notched the throne and the elections are just a matter to waver the Hand of the King. This question will verily find an answer, when the shenanigans in the closed rooms will become the salvo in the town, as has been the gist of our precedented history. But the question is should the stopgap taken to preempt Imran Khan in the form of coalition government be a formulated stratagem in the forthcoming elections? Should the country stick with the brainchild of a national government for the incoming time? Well! This idea seems to be untenable to defend, as this scheme doesn’t look viable, brooding the current political landscape and the context of agglomerated challenges this country has been facing.

“Ergo, a country brimmed with political mayhem and economic impasse could only be rectified with a puissant, strong government at the centre, viable of taking decisive and potent decisions to stamp out the challenges.”

At first, the coalition government itself reflects a weak government, which ostensibly is in power, but its functionality is actually paralyzed. A weak government entailing a limited power will always end up as inefficacious and impotent to deal with the erratic situations, which has been the course of this country for years. By the looks of the things, Imran Khan’s ouster has also been a same debacle story of a weak government, who was compelled to drop the reigns to his potential allies plenty of times. Ergo, a country brimmed with political mayhem and economic impasse could only be rectified with a puissant, strong government at the centre, viable of taking decisive and potent decisions to stamp out the challenges. For this to be attainable, the desideratum must be an election result, with a two-third majority of a single party, so that a situation with a hung parliament could be dissolved and a strong government with an untrammeled pressure could work to thrive this democratic state.

Moreover, another cardinal aspect pertinent to democracy is a resilient and constructive opposition, which at the behest of the people should castigate the policies of the government to keep the government on toes. The scheme of one national government is bereft of a strong opposition just to provide the government, substantial leeway to act upon their own. Just as we’ve seen in this year’s budget presentation. Budget which always has been a moot point in the parliament to negotiate its pros and cons, was presented without a constructive discussion to oppose it. The predicaments this country is going through in this testing time, demands a rigorous opposition which is the bedrock of democracy.

The craft of political engineering has plunged innumerable governments in the history of Pakistan. The formation of a coalition government is no less than surging the jeopardy, thus ringing the bells for the government to be the lapdog of military establishment, rather than be the watchdog, to set this country to the rights. The coalition government might be conducive in the solution book of the establishment, yet the country isn’t in the position to face the ordeal.

The haphazard and ephemeral tactics have already mutilated this country’s democratic values a lot and so does the people of this country, who seek an answer to this country’s protracting maladies. The impression of cynicism of the nation’s stakeholders is prevailing among the public, where the development of people is snubbed off. Each passing day without a solution book is plumbing the country to depths, the mitigation from where would become an onerous task for any government and the other stakeholders. Only the sagacious minds could find the solution to this dilemma, because it’s the answers that now, are important and without the organized methodologies, this crisis wouldn’t abate. The fresh start from here would be the first step, i.e., a transparent election, enlivening a new mandate for a government with a strong centre, to unravel the practical solutions over the theoretical platitudes.