MPs attend Ivy league school to learn leadership

New Haven (Connecticut): Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut is one of America's top Ivy League schools and this top school is for the first time, hosting a group of Indian MPs who will attend lectures on issues like Democracy and the Secular State, and Game Theory for the Politician.

While they are in New Haven, however, these MPs have their constituencies back home on their minds, along with the seemingly certain prospects of mid-term elections.

Says Congress MP from Haryana, Naveen Jindal, "Whatever happens will happen and we will face it."

Adds Orissa BJP MP, Dharmendra Pradhan, "For the last two months we have known that elections can happen any time now. This Government is in a coma, the allies are fighting with each other. But it's no problem for whenever there will be elections, we will face it."

These MPs are part of the India-US Forum of Parliamentarians. The lone Left MP who is with the Forum skipped this trip. But as this group moves to Washington DC next week and meets with the US State Department's pointsman on the civilian nuclear deal, Nicholas Burns, they will bring their diverging political views to the table.

Says Chairman, India-US Forum of Parliamentarians, BJ Panda, "People are going to continue to make up their own minds and parties are going to have their own positions. So, in the interaction we expect to have with Nicholas Burns, we expect to understand a bit more about the procedures."

Until then, the MPs are at this Ivy League university for four more days as Yale launches its Leadership Program for India's Parliamentarians.

While these Indian MPs are immersed in this Yale programme on leadership at present, they're obviously just as focused on their immediate political future back in India.

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