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Hung Assembly is the solution - Strange Remedy suggested in the article published in the Hindu.

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Satyameva Jayathe The Hindu in its September 21, 2017 paper had published an article under the head - States of the Opposition written by G. Sampath. It had made me to think that the author is against the progress of India - even to the extent of suggesting no party to get full majority in the forthcoming Lok Sabha election - hung assembly is the best solution! An analytical examination of the article is done here. The author is apprehensive and fearful that if the BJP’s Mission 350 plus proves successful, we could soon have a Parliament that is practically ‘Opposition mukt’. This is a state of fact - acceptable. The author, in the course of his article, said that after Independence, in the first Lok Sabha, the highest number of seats held by an opposition party was 44 – the same number of seats the Congress has in the present Lok Sabha. This massive mandate achieved by the Congress then led to the ‘Congress System’ that, according to the author, had not spo