Taking Rahul Gandhi's comments on coalition compulsions a step further, Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan has said coalition politics was sometimes a hurdle in decision making.
"Coalition can be a hindrance and one has to find a way out to make things happen," Chavan said at a function organised yesterday in suburban Vile Parle.
His comments came in the wake of Gandhi saying the UPA government was "not able to control inflation and corruption as his grandmother and late prime minister Indira Gandhi could do" because of coalition compulsions.
Chavan said the dynamics of coalition politics mean that there are certain decisions that can't be taken.
"At times, I get a call from (NCP boss) Sharad Pawar, who has a view on a situation...there are times when even Ajit Pawar (deputy chief minister and Sharad Pawar's nephew) does not agree with him."
"Had it been a prime minister like Manmohan Singh and had he got the kind of majority which Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi had, the country's growth rate would surely have been more by at least 1.5 to 2%," he said.
