Life's 2 full of surprises and Indian democracy has a tendency to surprise even the most professional analysts and experts. Personally this election for me has been a small milestone because its the first time my finger got inked. Right from the days when Indira Gandhi lost her seat after the Emergency to the loss of NDA in 2004 to the resounding success of the UPA in 2009 the exit polls have always got the predictions wrong. These opinion and exit polls always kickstart the back room politics where people with 5-10 seats proclaim themselves to be the kingmaker even before the official counting begins. Fom Mayawati to Jayalalitha to Sharad Pawar to Nitish Kumar to Chandrababu Naidu to the Left parties all started projecting themselves as prime ministerial candidates even though they were hopeful of getting not even 10 percent of the total seats. All sorts of political dramam and bickering started on 13th when media reported all sorts of calls being made by UPA and NDA to potential allies. The calls for a Third Front and the possibility of them being able to form a govt. with 120-130 seats was seriously debated by emminent political experts. I still cannot understand their foolishness as to how they can say that a fragmented alliance as the Third Front that too with only 120-130 seats projected could seriously form a government. The media ssurely did spice up the political frenzy and the news channels must be congratulating themselves for the mind boggling TRP's they must have achieved & another way to fool the common man and make money by spreading and quashing rumours of calls and visits being made by political leaders to one another.
Finally on the counting day as the whole nation and even me sat glued to television awaitng the people's mandate and hoping and praying for a conclusive and not a fragmented mandate the people gave their verdict for a stable and decisive allaince who projected an eminent economist as the leader. Noone and i mean noone can lead the economy back to revival than Manmohan Singh the man who as finance minister changed the course of business and industries with the Globalisation ,Liberalisation and Privitisation policy in 1991. The man who made vusiness and exports easier who probably will be remembered as the one who transformed India into a modern India. ALL THE KINGMAKERS GOT ROUTED AND PROBABLY THAT'S THE BEST THING THAT HAS HAPPENED TO INDIAN POLITICS AS REGIONAL PARTIES WITH REGIONAL BIAS ,MADE INDIA FRAGMNENTED AND DIVIDED AS THEY DONOT HAVE THE CAPABILITIES TO TAKE DECISION ON A NATIONAL LEVEL. People of India must be lauded for the secular and stable mandate they delivered. One more thing which was observable to me was that people voted for good governance irrespective of their caste creed and religion. Nitish Kumar was lauded for his good work in Bihar with a comprehensive victory their and so were the governments of Chattisgarh, Karnataka,Andhra and Haryana. Also people didnot spare those parties who failed to live upto their pre poll promises in state elections and routed them badly in central elections as if warning them that if they donot give good governance and performance they will be routed when their states go next into poll. The governments of Uttarakhand, UP , Punjab and MP must realise that people nowadays only accept good work and divisive politics. the clear message to the parties were IF YOU PERFORM YOU WILL BE REWARDED BUT IF YOU FAIL YOU'LL BE THROWN OUT.
Parties must also realise that politics in the name of religion, caste have beome less in importance and people now only see performance of government as a yardstick to vote.
YOUTH also played a major role I believe and with a lot of new voters added this time they played a decisive part in shaping the verdict. Rahul Gandhi became a source of inspiration for the youth for his honesty, hard work and for understanding the pulse of youth people which is crying out for an opportunity to be given to them so that they can transform the lives of people. A number of younger leaders like Sachin Pilot, Jyotiraditya Scindia etc. won showing that people believe that youth of today have the capability and ability to transform India.
Personally back home their is a wind of change against the left and their communist politics. Bengal finally has given the mandate to the Left that they need to shelve their old communist ideas and try to be progressive in thinking. They donot have to look too far than China and change their economic and labour policies.
A mind boggling election has just happened and I am happy that I was part of the decision to change the governance.Jai Hind.
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