Previous Tenure Congress led United Progressive Alliance ruled the country four five years and now has once again returned to power. If we consider its performance; its performance in the first four years was very satisfactory but the last year turned out to very challenging. Many weaknesses of the alliance government had surfaced. Where left parties had taken their support back from the UPA government on the issue of Indo-US nuclear deal, Manmohan Singh succeeded in saving the government from its premature fall with the support of Malayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party and in clinching the deal. During the same time, economic depression, unpredictable fall in the share market, terrorist attacks and serial bomb blasts increased government’s problems. Manmohan government acted very intelligently on the issue of terrorism while the opposition parties were trying to use it as a poll plank in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Problems From the present scenario it has become clear that the government will have to face more problems as compared to its previous tenure. Though Congress has returned to power as the strongest party with more than 200 MPs but it is still dependent on the regional parties for the survival of the coalition government. So Congress will have to take ‘extra care’ of the demands of its coalition partners. It had become clear prior to the formation of the government when one of its main allies DMK decided to stay out of the government and give its outsider support to the government. It must be learnt that DMK was an ally in UPA government’s previous tenure. The reason of DMK’s decision was it that they were not being given the cabinet seats according to their choice and expected numbers. Changing Scenario Successive coalition government have proved that regional parties have started to play an important role in the formation of the central government and this trend is not a positive sign for the progress of the nation and the poor people. Practically it has been proved that small parties try to grab maxim power on the time of formation of such kind of coalition governments. When their individual interests are ignored they create problems for the government by taking their support back. Thus they torpedo the international achievements of the government. For the two decades we have noticed that national level parties are becoming weaker while the regional parties have [...]
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Battles of Tarrain: Ghori Vs Chauhan
May 26th, 2009 
Aman Muhammad Ghori was then in possession of the basin of the Indus and in a position to advance into the fertile plains of Hindustan. He had no position to advance into the fertile plains of Hindustan. He had no Muhammedans rivals left. The Mohammaden possessions in India at that time i.e. Punjab and Sindh had passed into his hands. Mohammad Ghori marched towards the frontier town of Sirhind which had a great strategic importance. He captured the fort of Sirhind and placed it under the charge of Malik Ziaud Din. The Rajput princes were alarmed at the growing power of the Ghorides in the Punjab. At that time Delhi and Ajmer were ruled by Prithvi Raj Chauhan. He decided to check the advance of Ghorides. The Hindu Rajas realizing their common danger formed a great confederacy against the invaders and more than 100 leading chiefs of Northern India sent their contingents to fight under the command of Prithvi Raj Chauhan. The two armies met on the battlefield of Tarain near Thaneshwar. In a well contested battle, the Ghoride forces were completely routed. Muhammad Ghori was seriously wounded and his life was saved by a young Khilji horseman. After this victory, Prithvi Raj advanced towards Sirhind and captured the fortress from the Ghorides after a siege of 13 months. But Prithvi Raj made no attempt to oust the Ghaznavides from the Punjab. Mohammad was allowed to retire to Lahore from where he subsequently returned to Ghazni. Muhammad Ghori was not a man to be discouraged by one defeat. He was determined to wreak vengeance upon the Hindu princes. He soon recruited a large army and marched towards India to wipe off the disgrace of the defeat he had suffered. In 1192, at the head of an army of 120,000 Turks and Afghan horsemen, Ghori entered India by way of Peshawar. As soon as Prithvi Raj realized the threat of the Ghorides, he appealed to all the Rajas of Northern India for help. Many Rajas responded to his appeal and sent contingents to help him. He had collected an army of 30,000 including a large number of cavalry men and 300 elephants. The two armies faced each other once more at the battle field of Tarain. A very fierce battle was fought, in which, the Rajputs had the upper hand in the beginning. But eventually the Muslim cavalry wrought havoc in the [...]
