Cooptation in the political parties

We often see political power games happening in the formation of a government. Now a days what happens is that when the political party in the power tries to do something positive, the opposition party is bound to come up with a negative aspect of the initiative and then protests happens, the whole project is jeopardised and finally shelved. That is what happened in West Bengal, where the Buddhadev’s Nano project was shelved because of opposition from rival party chief Mamta Banerjee. Any state can grow only when all the stakeholders forget all the opposition and work constructively towards the development of the state. As of now the political parties perceive themselves as competitors of each other which is actually good because that brings out the best of the system through POSITIVE criticism. Mind the bold positive which is not happening in today’s scenario.

If we compare a state with a company then the Chief Minister is the CEO of the state who comes out of one of the various political parties which are in turn can be compared with various functions like Marketing, Finance, HR, Production etc. Even these functions also compete on budget allocations. But even if the CEO is chosen from one function, the other functions do not start working out of sync. The company becomes a successful company when all the functions work completely in sync which results in an increase in the value of shareholders of the company. Similarly the political parties need to work in sync to boost the growth of the state and increase the value of its shareholders i.e. the residents of the state. So the first thing to do is to eliminate the perception of a perfect competition among the parties in their minds and promote cooptation which is combination of cooperation and competition.