HUNG PARLIAMENT = ?

How fast do electoral equations change?  Faster than even their arithmetical cousins.  If in one elections, it was Congress multiplied by Left raised to the power six = Government at the Centre.  It will take just one development, Left - Congress - General Elections.  This 'root' equation never changes, though the coordinates of the equation may change every time.

However, the political scenario now means general elections = Hung Parliament.  But one is tempted to add to the equation, Hung Parliament = ?

In judicial parlance, when a guilty person is handed out the severest of the sentences, it goes something like this - to be hanged until death.  Translated into political terms, death implies next elections.  When the jury, in this case, the electorate time and again hands out a 'Hung' verdict, our poor politicians cannot be blamed for being confused.  

As this political division (pun intended), addition, subtraction and multiplication of parties (hydra-like) goes on unabashedly, Hung Parliament seems to be on everybody's mind - politicians and the common folk alike. 

One might argue that our beloved politicians, for one can't tell them leaders by any stretch of imagination, don't have a mind.  I for one, beg to disagree and wish to prove otherwise.  

Contrary to the popular thought and perception, our politicians are blessed with a rare acumen and insight.  When they are well aware that the House is going to be a Hung one, it implies logically that it will be a 'suspended' one as well (for things that are hanged, or hung, remain suspended in mid-air).  So, our leaders rightly think that it is not worthwhile to 'hang' around in a Hung Parliament - that is why we see such low attendances during Parliament sessions.  Moreover, a Hung Parliament indicates that the nation is a land of hangers-on.

There are any number of them for the top slot.  Then there are all the living (not alive) ex-PMs cutting across the party lines, who had to hang their prime ministerial boots unceremoniously.
Besides, the ex-PMs, you have those who were once offered the post, but turned it down, and are now shouting from the roof tops that they would not be averse to becoming PM, if offered a chance.  Now mind you, the catchword here is - 'if'.
Then you have all the powerful lady, outside whose house, her partymen 'hang' around day and night just to have a glimpse of her and implore her to campaign for them, so that they can 'hang' on to power.  Of course, you have any number of bandicoots, who if elected the PM, might decide to do away with all this Hung Parliament business and decide the issue with a bullet rather than the ballot.  And it is here that they might decide to introduce the doctrine of one 'bullet for each person'.
In between, you have leaders of all sorts of non-descript parties, hanging their  tongues in delight at the very prospect of becoming the Prime Minister.  Even in these coming elections, and also for elections of all times to come, the point is not that whether it will be a Hung Parliament or not.  For a good majority of elected candidates who will be blabbering out oaths of secrecy for the umpteenth time, deserve to be hung up for good.  Once, if at all, the law takes its much touted and wonted own course, this will be duly taken care of and then it will not matter whether the Parliament is Hung or not.
However, going by the current political scenario, Hung Parliament does seem to have become the order of the day.  If our beloved politicians too secret to have accepted their lot as a Hung one, one can safely that the answer of equation - Hung Parliament = HP (Hanky Panky).  Simple.  As we were taught in our school days, Q.E.D in arithmetical terms used to mean - 'Quo Errata Demonstrandum', but we had for simplification  sake, expanded it as - 'Quite Easily Done'.

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