1. This is your presentation title
By Amrita Saluja

2. What do you mean by Power Sharing?

3. Sharing of Power= dividing power= weakening the country
Do you agree???

4. Why power sharing is desirable?
Moral Reasons
Prudential Reasons

5. Forms of Powersharing

6. Among different organs of government

7. Among governments at different level

8. Among different social groups

9. Political parties, pressure groups and movements

10. Case Studies

11. Sri Lanka

12. Majoritarian Rule and its Result
What the rule meant
Act of Sinhala as the only official language
Protect and foster Buddhism
Policies favoured Sinhala aplicants for govt jobs and education
The result
Feeling of alienation among Sri lankan Tamils
Govt insensitive towards their language and religion
Discrimination and unequal treatment

13. What happened next

14. Belgium

15. Accomodation in Belgium
Belgian Model
Equal no. of dutch and french in Central govt
State govts not subordinate to Central govt
Brussels has a separate govt with equal representation
Community govt

16. What do we learn from these two case studies
When you don’t share power- you undermine the unity of the country!!!!

17. THE END