India- A Two Party Contest, In A Multiparty System!

India enjoys being one of the largest democracy on this earth. Democracy! Accompanied by so many ideas, beliefs, concepts and conflict. The beauty of Indian democracy lies within its diversity itself! But sometimes diversity may turn into a chaos, an overweight heap which is not adequate in proportion making it difficult to carry! Political parties are an integral part of democracy. They constitute a group of people with similar ideologies and a common motive of welfare for all. India follows a multi-party system. It helps us to channelize its overgrowing diversity and population. Multi-party ensures pouring of more ideas into the cup up to the brim. But what India needs in not more ideas any one efficient Idea would work well, but an efficient implementation and most importantly a result! India consists of an over flowing rivers of Ideas divided into different tributaries and distributaries (state and regional parties). Most of them share the same ideologies with meagre differentiation, after all the rivers have a same source! If all these groups can be encompassed into a minimum of groups, it will be well and good in avoiding both the hotchpotch and the ideological monotony! Even the most developed countries of world like US, UK, Australia follow the 2 party system

In a 2 party system, the ideological variations can be kept intact within the members of a party itself. All the two party system does is clubbing different ideas into a larger group, under a common name, in order to handle every idea with care

Two party system is just a way of encouraging regional parties to sort a place in one of the 2 major parties, by completely merging themselves within it (unlike alliance), through negotiating ‘mere’ variation rather than reconstructing an whole institution. In biparty, we can quickly realize that it is just a bunch of overlapping ideas tentatively put together!

Frankly speaking, in India we do have a virtual bi party system at national level. Every 5 years India get tore between the tricolour hand (Congress) or the pink Lotus (BJP). The people have a fathom to see either Congress or BJP at the centre. At the state level, yes we do have a multi-party but at the centre, it is predominantly a 2 party! (though with alliance).Isn’t it so?

Thus, it may be better for India to have a two party system as there have been many occasions when many small parties join hands through alliance and form government. This is just a murder of mandate of the people of the country. Then, what's the point of having electoral race?

Bi party system is the need of the hour in India. India has suffered much under the tyranny of multiple parties. It is perhaps the right time that we switch. Biparty provided us with many opportunities which have been left behind my multi-party itself. Although it offers us less choices, it provide space for a stable government without any hassle. The scope of flourishment of corruption gets faded. India being a multi-party is reduced to dirty blame games and allegation. There is a deep political crisis. The over growing population of parties are just clashing rather than making any contribution. Some consider it a disadvantage that having only two options limits our choices but there are others who agree that being given 2 choices helps it ‘keeping it simple!’ and much better decisions.

Though it is true that every system bring with itself pros and cons but it is quite evident that multi-party has not brought India much good. Its black side is over weighted in compare to its white side .If India will ever adopt biparty in future, it must also be accompanied by enough safeguards. After all, it depends on humans at last how to utilise it!