Parliament «.. ~. Redefining Accountabi ty’ the Age "2 1) of Coalition Government Harish “Khare = al prisaty, ane 5 the non of eltective "governance; Peter execiitive to be institutionally accothtable to the legis ture, bOUA in. the! performance of #S routine jobs and in te By the -quallty’ of. control Poclian f¢ Over: the-executive. singly” parliam Veen deemed. to be an exercise in. farinadii, substarice ‘and without having the ‘capacity ‘to * Chapter 13°: q Prime Minister ang Peron FS Allndi 2 ently, is one in which, the regional, political parliamentary acevere {wbity 18 the relgnaion and then teary Cees ernarides {6the .Valpayee_govemment. Hr-—Tee: SESE degagture from the Cabinet tn the wake of the Tehalkdgpose was ptecipitated not- by the prime er arovier_aiinister, Mamata Banjee mm. MaweH:15, TOOL, she Wrote: (and made public) « letter, dqmminding MI Fermades” ouster "The image of $0" be strong. sftich’ fo upHold the transparency sid monty in the Gdvemment’ An ‘Orwellian sleight: of hand ito force the ‘prime minister’s hand, all"in ‘the ‘name of roe the ‘prime minister's image. And, Ugh Me. Femendes em un bat the Judicial (C6: name) ie Re eee eed vii cabinet, Thp-outrage of the Opposition: exe 1 : ~ boyeott OF ne" wateemiindster=—ers of le eos cethe ebiisn ln Me. Vappe’s prc mints auhorty rie iterated mtn prone, 2 ver 3, Hh dane as, quoted. 4s_saying :at-the progress Ws sdbenced oa Prime Miniter Vopaye® en Advan ec y most_ glaring example. of how tke. ent plays aos th , : Were not uthappy st the, frequent disruption. of the two. Howey Zeta wns ale sion o dist ah ‘THe exigencés oft polijes produced of a Deputy Prime Min ee of a Deputy Pine Minister en sigte oa prom the Congtharene beng lee nok prae! ESigRation of Me, AS¥ARL, Deputy: Peine Minister on June 2008; ae come.aT the epenst of te pint mensteraauthon. A“Taown, Advani acolyte waite" (he June 29 elevation)’ was: much, more than a de-facto. situation being converted into n dejure relty. From being cost asa tival power centre—and thus the object of salacious speculation Advani was trangformed "into the dynamo of an enlarged power base. that IRCOT™ porated both him and A. B, Valpsyee’ To use a corpo” rate -analogy, Aow there: was not’ only a benign patriarchyasichairman, but also s hands-on CEO-on the board: y were complementing each other"? "See; ‘The Untouchable Te Wek, Dcinbe 16, 2001, Pawar SA, Inn Tay, uly 2 2002, An experienced practioner of colon sangeet sate Tha lenaerahip of erat cue et onc en ose ace vincpleig Terinmentary Govemover Heb expected 19 be Dinctpanen come a, than in the esse anes STs principle hardly af ‘be tenable in lion government, There aré-claims and.counterclainis and the leadership of PM or CM, tends to be more,coritractual thar cultivated one, He is a leader _ mofeby courtesy and sulferanceo coaltonpttners Sometimes anchher cere of power is rested, Out © Deputy Prime Master or Deputy Chit Minter who tte Fo/9utsmart the888» The Fn Parlaneii-A Compartoe POP cas introvconltion_ strains, uke fant exch vellegislature™ relationship: becamé Cony are relationship. bes* du ae atone Forthe frst date he SIP ecaee were te HEED" wy ee ey i {ea teen ia ange ee st Chapter 4! tministers were absent while the salaried “backs Soe benches tock over the shoates show Parliamentary Federalis in India: The Consti- » ttttional Inputs and the E Process of Imagining jut Chakrabarty ' M. Comlitions. by definitiba came into. play-when ne ‘political is able: to commarid a 1 the Lok Sabha and: when parties find themselves com pele to, com together to provide 2 workag atau i arrar it ipso facto tends to ngement iio fc_tends 0 even The song prime minister behave in a we and funceptain: manner, - This shakes the. executive less than. receptive to the demands of parlismentary accountability, as every: Known, precept of the West: 1 minster model gets-diluted i | Tna’s democratic experience is- unique, In the context coalionaagenent.. TE Frsoun ae were foes Gllengeag the democratic forms of governisent. have generally triumphed, the ‘gontinuity of Indiaasia democratic State is remark- Able. There have been no cilitry bids for power, and Ge |. ever the authoritarian regime:that sought to gag the f |. sdamscratic processes ‘in the wake/of the 1975-77 1 "Bmergency, ended by popular Verdict ia 2977. Again in Bab, te, fuling. party thaf- was drought into power zeslously following Indira Gandhi's electoral defeat, made an axit through a. peacelil election. Democra p cy i thetéfote not, oY a guirintee Ri ‘adult ‘ilkage it a ‘ "es algo conkbute to & pees of ‘redetining” E lf! Sharad Dighe 'Césion Goverment Sub "poli syste, Allhough the constitution ip crraan ; TinD Sunda Tam G4), Callen alles ey ep x imagining fore Sealy sacl Now Danna ats ee a oti SiS Bee ce Wes in i 45, a