Calling the Opposition in India as the “Opposition” is like a self fulfilling prophecy. I think it leads them to do exactly that – show their opposition to anything and everything that the ruling party does and wait on the watch to pin any random event on the ruling party! I could not believe my eyes when I read in the Asian Age the day before yesterday that the “opposition” parties in India are calling on the Finance Minister to resign over the Sensex crash of the past week!! I wonder why they did not call to make PC the Prime Minister when the Sensex was going all guns ?! hmm… I got it – that will not be considered “opposition” I guess !
If the idea of self fulfilling prophecies in indeed true, what we need is to instill the idea that the opposition parties are constructive and sensible, while the ruling party(ies) should be deemed to be progressive and rational. Maybe, that will cause them to behave in a progressive manner rather than pushing the country back into the dark ages of “casteism”
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