India, Sept. 13 -- Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Manoj Jha, in an interview to Vrinda Tulsian, speaks about his new book 'In Praise of Coalition Politics', Opposition INDIA bloc's performance in the vice-presidential election, and the road ahead for Bihar polls. Edited excerpts:

Your new book praises coalition politics, but in the recently concluded vice-presidential election, INDIA bloc suffered cross-voting.

We get stuck with aberrations. News of cross-voting is an aberration, it is not the main text but part of the footnote. Coalition politics upholds India's plurality. If you quote Nehru-India is a palimpsest, layer after layer, no layer erases any other layer. Coalition governments have delivered more pro-peo...