There's a reason why the US has stable politics - there are only two major parties, and on issues of grave disagreemnts, politicians stand and fight within their parties rather than throw tantrums and join the other side or form their 'own' parties. It's a sad fact that India's multiplicity of parties, headed by selfish, selfcentered, self-aggrandizing, power-hungry egotistical and infantile politicians, serves only to further divide the masses and balkanize the state, creating, in the process near-chaos, ungovernability, instability, and a continual state of political siege, resulting in weak, indecisive govts. No wonder lack of governance is seen by all, even backward illiterates, as the gravest problem facing this troubled nation.
