NO REAL ANATHEMAS AT THE CENTRE

Barring the irreconcilbility of the Congress & the BJP and BJP & the Left there are no real anathemas at the centre: SP-BSP; AIADMK-DMK;JD(U)-RJD and the rest can go to either of the three major coalition blocks- UPA; NDA or the third front or at least two of the fronts ( Viz.TDP, BJD etc ) without any compunction. This may be a bit unpalatable to the western observers - esp. those with a two party system.However, there is nothing immoral about it-just as the Congress and BJP agree on many international / foreign policy issues without necessarily forming a national government , the regional parties too can share / switch platforms at the centre in the name of national issues ( viz. secularism ) while fighting it out against the same parties in the states.The situation will continue till the space for the third and poosibly the fourth pan national parties gets filled up . It could be the expansion of te Left (perhaps by bringing in Naxalites into the mainstream ) and /or a pan India Muslim party or some such thing.Till such time the Indian political scene will remain somewhat like shooting a Hindi film - without a too structured script or no script at all. Just leave your brains behind and see for yourself that it works.