Kolkata, September 06: Union minister Pranab Mukherjee today said the media’s projection that this is an era of coalition politics does not necessarily hold true.
“I do not believe in this media theory that it is the coalition era and that one-party rule is not possible,” the Union Finance Minister said at a Youth Congress rally here in the presence of AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi.
Congress singly ruled for more than four decades after Independence and there was some compulsion for the formation of coalition governments as some regional parties raised their heads in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar and Tamil Nadu, he observed.
“Congress has to be strengthened in these four states and Rahul Gandhi is trying towards that end.
“There are 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
–Agencies