Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has expressed confidence that key reform legislations will be passed. Dismissing the perception of policy paralysis in UPA-2, Mr. Mukherjee told PTI in Washington that compulsions of coalition politics were forcing the government to evolve consensus on major issues. The Finance Minister was replying to apprehensions expressed by Corporate America over the perceived policy paralysis in the government and Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu's comments that there may not be any big ticket reforms till elections in 2014. Rejecting criticism about lack of decisions, Mr. Mukherjee contended that the government has taken a number of policy decisions in recent months.