The competition among the political parties to acquire the portfolio.

Is their any meaning to find out the fractional spirit of the
M.L.A's in Kerala? What is the benefit for the church if the MLA's
are Orthodox or Jacobite ?

It is a usual practice among the political parties, that all of them
are fighting to get good portfolios for their party to represent in
the Ministry. Dr. Babu Paul wrote an article about the importance of
the portfolio for the chief Minister and it was very informative.
The leading major party in the L.D.F. is Communist Party Marxist and
that made them to select the Chief Minister from themselves.
Unfortunately the internal fractional fight in the C.P.M. made their
decision to give the post of the Chief Minister to Mr. V.S.
Achuthanandan after long tricky games since the selection of the
candidature for the election.

When the L.D.F. won in the election then the coalition partners in
the L.D.F start to bargain for the portfolios but the C.P.M. showed
their regular attitude and tried to please the other parties with
left over portfolios and they forced to give some portfolios to the
C.P.I because they have 17 M.L.A's and the C.P.M. Cannot form the
ministry without them. If the C.P.M. may win more than 71 seats
alone then the game may be entirely different.

Why does the political parties fighting and competing for the
portfolios? Is there any portfolios good or bad? If the leaders are
obligated to serve the community and submitted themselves to the
people's wellness then why are they selecting to get some of the
portfolios. Some one likes to have the Home department, some likes
excise, some for the forestry, some for revenue, some others for
Public works, Education, Finance etc.

So the selection is not for offering a good service to the public
but it is based on the earning that they can make with the help of
the portfolio.

So the democracy in our country is re-defined, as "Democracy is the
system to loot the people for the gang by the gang with the gang."

In this system why do we worry to find out who are Orthodox and who
are Jacobites?

Charly V. Padanilam, Houston, TX.