The Game of Power

Janata Dal is an Indian political party which was formed through the merger of Janata Party factions, the Lok Dal, Congress(S), and the Jan Morcha led by V. P. Singh on 11 October 1988 on the birth anniversary of Jayaprakash Narayan. From the day of its formation, this party had possesed the decay rate of Francium. It broke away in so many small as well as large parties which are fighting (because contesting is a very modest word) each other in present day elections. The breakage was a chain reaction and presently the actual janata dal doesn't even exist. Reasons for the breakage may be any of these: that the party had many power centres and although it worked on the same ideology of mandal based politics, it was never stable; that the leaders were hungry for power and had personal ambitions etc. This disintegration of janata dal into the janata parivar have led to emergence of vicious vote bank politics in India, because these parties have no different ideology, so to find a political ground and to differentiate themselves from others they have pampered and appeased a particular section of society and have been completely or to be precise politically loyal to it. Various parties like SP, BSP, BJD etc which actually are regional parties (but have been in and out of the list of national parties given by Election commission) have contested elections against and with each other in state as will as centre elections. Few 'have been' political rivals. The reason to point out these facts is that the political scenario in the country has changed.

Enemy of Enemy

After the emergence of, (as many of the leaders of these parties quote)  a 'tea seller', who currently serve as the Prime minister of the country, their political ground is under threat. The threat has loomed so large that even their existence is in question. It was shocking to find out about the Nitish-Lalu patch up in Bihar (who forgot their differences and came together for 'the development of Bihar' and 'to protect it from communal forces') which was slightly less celebrated than Sharukh-Salman patch up. Evidently, these enemies of their time have decided to join hands to fight against a mutual enemy (who they consider is a danger to society as well as the communal harmony) whome they will fight as a secular team. If they succeed in this move it will be a match between the 'Secular XI and Communalist XI' ; with Secular XI having all eleven as captains in their team! Is this possible? Can they come together? and even if they come together, Can they stay together? And if they come together why did they break anyway? Where have the ideological differences gone? Does any ideology even exists or are they just a bunch of men fighting for power? Because power is what i suppose broke them and now they are coming together to come back in power!
Let's see, what this game of power yields to?