As the results keep pouring in now, the trends are absolutely clear! The UPA is headed for a mammoth 260+ seats, almost 100 more than the BJP-led NDA, powered by 200+ seats for the Congress itself. Manmohan Singh has proved he's King, the only PM since Nehru to be voted back to power after a 5 year term.
As Naveen Patnaik and Nitish Kumar sweep their states of Orissa and Bihar, the verdict is clear. The Indian voter has rejected divisive politics and voted for governance and stability. Lalu and Paswan have been routed, Mayavati and her bahujan politics have been relegated to third position in UP, irrespective of the number of statues of herself she's got installed all over. The Left has got their lowest ever total in decades in Kerela and West Bengal, their shameless politics of blackmail given a strong thums down.
The Congress has cashed in on the strength of the Gandhi family, Sonia and Rahul's charisma and relentless campaigning turning into a strong positive tide in their favour. But for me, the winner has definitely been the performance and the clean image of our PM, Manmohan Singh, who's truly showed his worth! With many other strong, young leaders like Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Milind Deora, Priya Dutt and NC's Omar Abdullah, the country can finally look forward to a lot more involvement and power to the youth.
What did the BJP get wrong? Everything. Having Advani fly to Mumbai to try and make cheap gains out of 26/11, even while our soldiers were still battling, a few days after having publicly taken on the ATS and its chief Hemant Karkare, was symbolic of the depth the party has sunk to. From opposing the nuclear deal, to infighting between its own cadres, to the absolutely disgusting personal attacks against a man of the stature of Manmohan Singh, the BJP has proved it's complete lack of vision and leadership to run this country!
For me, this is a red letter day in the history of this country. Finally, truly, this country has grown up!
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BJP has great scope to improve no doubt. But saying that BJP got it all wrong is an overstatement.
When Advani's visit is termed as publicity stunt, Congress' frequent refusals to enact a special law to counter terrorism were equally cheap attempts to appease minorities.
BJP had more concrete Ideas about governance than Congress any day. Corruption wise I feel We saw levels of corruption unheard before during MMS's role. MMS was termed honest and clean because he was indecisive and made absolutely no difference to the office he belonged.
Governance requires policy making with a deliberate mindset, planned processes and set of rules which are never violated. It results into strengthened systems and institutions which eventually deliver over a period of time. I feel that BJP is the only party that was capable of doing that despite all it's shortcoming.
Congress however believes in wishful thinking and randomness of the processes. Their dynastic charisma, sympathetic media always helps to make us believe that the randomness is actually a system that works. But upon a close observation we see that from governors to CBI congress has weakened every system it could. They have popularised a concept of mai baap sarkar which gives incentives to poor because they are poor thus giving them an obvious reason to remain poor.
What formula work for BJP in governance same fail when it comes to electoral practices. BJP promises the right stuff. Article 370, UCC, etc should be done are actually the highest priority tasks in nation building. But congress knows that national issues are not something that people are interested in. People react to incentives and congress gives them incentives. Either through state of through their henchmen who act like Robinhoods.
Any ways stable government is good than an unstable government, and I am happy that more communal leaders like Mayavati, Lalu and leftist are now out of the power equation.
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