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Editor’s note: This is a comment we received on the article, “ Opposing 'Modi4PM': Are Left intellectuals against democracy? ” published earlier today. Apart from light editing for spelling and grammar, the comment has been left as is. by Tabish Khair You have misrepresented the petition. It has not appealed to parties to prevent the formation of a Modi-govt. It has appealed to secular parties to stay true to their agenda – what they had said during elections – and not sell out to the NDA-faction. What it is against is horse-trading, not democracy.[caption id=“attachment_1525543” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi. PTI[/caption] If NDA gets a majority, it is welcome to form a govt as far as I am concerned. I would even say it is obliged to form the govt if BJP is the biggest party, and it should not get out of it like it did in Delhi some months ago! But the secular parties need to stay true to their electoral platforms and REFUSE to support. This is another matter. The secular party cannot and should not be part of such a govt and horse-trading should not take place.
Petitioner Tabish Khair said the petition to political parties only appealed to them to stick to their promises made on secularism and did not attack the idea of democracy.
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