Is coalition politics here to stay?

For

- With coalition politics, you can have a system where even those who normally do not get attention from the media get elected, allowing a wider range of people to be able to run.
- They can also organize propaganda and events to effectively propagate a way of thinking.
- Indecisiveness of elections. No particular party is getting the peoples mandate.
- Advantage of coalition politics in enabling formation of government.
- With people rejecting single party rule, the former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno A Sangma said that coalition politics has come to stay in the country.

Against

- Unfortunately, this always leads to politics divided by partisan lines, and can reduce the effectiveness of the government because of infighting.
- Coalition politics is going to stay in India just because of it's effectiveness in propagating and organizing to elect it's officials.
- A party with a handful of seats becomes powerful.
- Coalitions will face problems of internal disputes due to clustering of parties having differing manifestos.