Perhaps the time has come to devise a law to slap a fine on the MLAs/Ministers when a government dies before its expiry period. Elections are a very big cost on the public exchequer and the political parties primarily exist, not to contest polls time and again, but to facilitate governance. Political power, should not be seen as an end in itself, but as a means to serve the people.
While the politicians must be spending sleepless nights about how close - or how distant - they will be to the corridors of power, the people of the State must be more concerned about what the President's Rule would mean to them? Will governance control-alt-delete in the Silicon City, or will it surge ahead, without any hindrance of political interference? In some States like Bihar earlier, the President's Rule has proved to be a boon. Here's hoping that President's Rule in Karnataka, while sparing us of the political games, will give a better account of administering the people, and deliver a government we deserve the most (!).
