Is it desirable to have the government of one party both at the centre and the state?
Answers
1. The constitutional arrangement depends to a large extent on how the ruling party and leaders follow these arrangements.
2.For a long time, the same party ruled both at the centre and in most of the state governments. This meant the state party did not exercise their rights as federal units.
3. When the ruling party at the state level was different, the parties that ruled that ruled at the centre tried to undermine the powers of the states.
4. In 1990, with the formation of coalition government at the centre, regional parties and state governments started exercising their powers as federal units.
5. This led to a new culture of power sharing and respect for the autonomy of state governments. A major judgement of the supreme court that made it difficult for the central government to dismiss the state government in an arbitary manner.