With a fractured polity and so many states being governed by increasingly assertive regional parties, it is unlikely that any of the national parties (Congress and BJP) will manage a majority on their own. Coalition will, then, be inevitable and the same kind of problems that plague governance today will continue. It is time for right-thinking minds across the political spectrum as also the media and intelligentsia to start seriously reviewing the existing political and governance systems to come up with some critical changes that can smoothen the problems plaguing our over 60-year-old democracy.
Kishor Kulkarni, Mumbai
