A lot of action is taking place on the national political theatre on the question of nuclear deal, and the political activity has sort of reached its crescendo with the D-day of 22 July 2008 in the sight.  Congress-led ruling coalition, United Progressive Alliance (UPA), and the opposition parties are desperately into the business of buying support and using every ploy, irrespective of democratic decency, to crack the numbers game to make the “no confidence motion” go in their favour.  The trend of politics in the country is quite ominous and a blot on the face of democracy and its decency.

Essentially, it is all to do with shrewd political survival intents and not the national interest which rules the political arena of the country.  It is quite disgusting to see how our polity is rapidly transitioning into a marshy pit of politics where political parties employ political ploy to divide people on baseless issues of religion and community to develop their vote bank.

The moment Congress led government decided to go ahead with the nuclear deal, political buzz started to torment the national politics.  Just see how sworn enemies like Mulayam Singh Yadav have now turned friends and the long allies in Left parties are out to settle score with the government they had been apart of for good four years.  And the delirium with which our leaders have come out hitting out at each other, the lead-up to the trust vote on 22nd July is bound to turn filthier and murkier.

The politicians seem to get more and more brazen, and the astute politicians are in for cashing in on the opportunity to strengthen their political ground and vote bank.  The SP supreme, Mulayam Singh, broke his four-year impasse with Sonia Gandhi and Congress and reverted to his stand of opposing the government stating that the nuclear deal was in the interest of the country!  Whether it is in the interest of the country or not is a distant thing, the immediate beneficiary is Mulayam who sort of compelled government to charge sheet his political enemy, Mayawati, in disproportionate asset case.