Question

Discuss the center state  relation during coalition government.​

Answer 1

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• The recommendations of the Commission on Centre-State Relations, if implemented, should help bring about a significant improvement in relations among union, state and local governments. But this by itself will not be enough. The British system of non-fixed tenure of government and the 'winner takes all' type of territorial constituency based elections, together with the inability to evolve even after 38 years a healthy British type of two-party system, have given rise to extreme 'politics of confrontation' and special problems of union-state relations. Against this background, this paper argues that a time has come to give serious thought to modifying the position of the council of ministers that we have borrowed from Britain to one that obtains in Switzerland. The Swiss system has succeeded in providing Switzerland, which has a heterogeneous population and a two-tier system of government, a remarkably stable and efficient co-operative system of government. The Swiss system cannot obviously be adopted in its entirety in India because of some basic differences, but there are elements of it which, with suitable modification, could serve us better than the British system.