Torrid Time for UPA

The UPA is going through a horrible phase. Not many Congress-led Central governments had faced this sort of situations before and if so, they had overcome all these situations. But, this time the scenario is all together different. The Congress party of today seems to be stumbling like never before. Many have put the questions on the lack of governance. Probably, it is so.

Although all the corruption cases of scams are yet to be 100% true, still going by the last 2 years of UPA-2^nd record and its performance tells that lack of transparency, lack of proper strategy exists inside UPA. The CVC case has really embarrassed the central government. It has failed in handling the issues of food crisis, Maoism, Kashmir insurgency and Telengana. It buckled under pressure to form JPC on 2G spectrum scam. The PM has also admitted that “coalition compulsion” has cramped the UPA. However, that’s the way coalition functions in an electoral alliance. It has its positives and also it has its negatives. Its “saffron terror” policy has not worked at all. Now, with the Wikileaks disclosure of cash for votes scam is a gift to the opposition. All these issues have severely dented its image and it has lost its credibility for sure as well as its popularity.

The last word “popularity” has plenty of significance when it comes to contesting Indian elections. The month of April will witness assembly elections in 4 states that include West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and one union territory of Puducherry. All these states election results are crucial to Indian political scenario. Before the election, theKarunanidhi’s DMK in TamilNadu andMamata Banerjee TrinaMool Congress of West Bengal has already made Congress hopped and puffed onto their tunes by not giving the number of seats it desired to contest . Both the party’s swaggering was understandable as the Congress has “Coalition compulsion”. The situations in Kerala too don’t seem to be comfortable and bright for the Congress, which is desperate for a good-show after the drubbings at Bihar assembly polls. They will be sharing seats on almost all states to contest election where population combines 20-25% of overall the country’s population. In Assam though, it seems to be teeming with confidence, till situations are not that comfortable as it was before. Congress is banking on a good showing in this and four other states polls to ease the pressure. Results on all the states are crucial as all the states falls under UPA’s team and its results will give momentum to the party that wins for the forthcoming political times.

Amidst all those controversies and allegation of scams buzzing around, it is not comfortable to be handling all those issues and fight elections for the UPA and specifically Congress.