The good:
- Elimination of the left powers: Rahul Gandhi was perhaps right to have commented that the Left’s view about the nuclear deal was atleast 20 years old. Left was made to pay for the blunder of their alienation from the Congress and how. Mr. Karat is sure to bear the brunt of promoting a Third Front.
- Decline of regional parties: This has been one of the positive outcomes this time. Congress has reported an increased tally of 56 votes. Out of these just 17 have come from BJP and the remaining have been grabbed from the regional parties. Its heartening to see that the silly agendas of downplaying the use of computers by SP and caste-based politics by a certain ‘Behenji’ have been out rightly rejected.
- Dynasty politics: ‘Inheritance’ not ‘merit’ has become the norm for the Congress. Rahul was silently anointed as the vanguard shadowing all other senior leaders within the Congress who have far more credentials. Perhaps the latter have one big deficiency – they are not of the Gandhi clan.
- BJP sits in opposition: A party that stands for development and decisive leadership has been handed another term in the opposition. What NDA did for India in its five-year term speaks for itself. But the voters agree otherwise and one’s got to respect the mandate.
- Scramble for power: As soon as the leads and wins became clear there was a surge of activity at the centre. Wherein Congress got lucrative offers from smaller parties to up their ante in the formation of the central government, BJP faced an internal tussle for the leader of Opposition.
- Rise of Mamata Bannerjee: The voters from Bengal have been a surprise package. After what Mamata did in Singur, she has managed to garner a major increase in popularity. This has been very very disheartening.
- Vote bank politics click: The Congress' appeasement strategies – OBC quota, student intake in non-existent IITs, removal of POTA, procrastination of death penalty of Afzal – have found a wide audience among the voters.
I appreciate your trying to educate the voters, but am really shocked to find out your own limitations and the skewed views on politics you are propagating ...remember that little knowledge could be a dangerous thing my friend..get the facts right first
ReplyDeletewhat mr anonymous has said is partly true . What you have presented here , ishow things appear to you . Ground realities maybe different . mamata bannerjee has had reasons for her gainin popularity , and there were a lot more factors than simple vote bank politics which made them win .
ReplyDeleteI feel that this overwhelmingly paves the way for narendra modi . The old guard is now gone , and now it is the middle rung of Jaitley and others who will step up next . Modi is a sure front runner to be the next prime ministerial candidate from the BJP - and if the BJP are to win next time , they got to get their allies right .
You are talking of Inheritance and caste based politics...but BJP is not an exception to it as well."India or Hindustan is a land of hindus"...what a blunder the BJP made.No one ,heedless of one's religion will gonna accept that statement.
ReplyDeleteWhether it be 2009 or 2090....religion,caste,regionalism etc will always find a place in this democracy...so like it or not...one has to bear it.
And to get the facts right..the UPA 's leaders can match the leaders of any country in the world. Be it Dr Singh(Oxford+Cambridge) ...Mr Chidambaram(Harvard)...Mr Sibal(Harvard again)...etc the list is endless.
So my dear compatriots...worry not...our country is at the right hands..and I wonder whether in future any party other than UPA can form the government!!!
@Anonymous I would really appreciate if you could point out the "skewed views" and wrong facts. One can have and is welcome to have his/her own views. Politics can be controversial and it wouldn't be a problem if you post without keeping your identity a secret even if you want to criticise anything and everything that I write. Feel free my friend.
ReplyDelete@Arka For sure. Whenever one writes, it reflects his/her own opinions and my blog is no different. I have neither denied that Mamata didn't have other reasons and that there were no factors other than vote bank politics. But there is no denying the fact that Singur was the issue that brought Mamata to the limelight. She had no dearth of issues to bring up thereafter. Moreover, vote bank politics has had a role to play and must be unequivocally condemned.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree with your view on BJP. It will take a lot of effort for BJP to build up from this point and give Congress a run for their money in 2014.
@Biswa BJP's primary election agenda this time was decisive government and good governance. There is another conspicuous issue here. There is one party which only says that they are pro-Hindu and another party which implements silly vote-bank policies. Not once during its term during 1999-2004 did NDA do anything that is unsecular. Instead, when they develop infrastructure at that pace it benefits everybody - poor, rich, Hindu, Muslim and every other Indian. But UPA has shown that it is incapacitated to empower the have-nots and therefore adopts shortcuts in the form of reservations. Whom would you support?
ReplyDeleteI beg to differ on your views about the leaders of our nation. It is inappropriate to say that a highly educated person (that too in fields other than management) is sure to be a good leader. Dr. Singh is a Ph.D. in Economics and economist is the best job he can do. Ditto for others. Apart from a plethora of other very desirable qualities, a leader should have the guts to turn things around. Not one brave move has been taken by Dr. Singh other than the Nuclear Deal. Do you really support all the reservation stuff and admission to non-existent IITs? Where were all these leaders during that time?
"Decisive government" and "good governance"...too optimistic and ambiguous!!!
ReplyDeleteAs far as vote-banks policies are concerned, vote-banks is part of politics and NDA is no exception to it either.
"Not once during its term during 1999-2004 did NDA do anything that is unsecular"... what did BJP do when Gujarat was burned.Mr Advani and hard faced Mr Nodi still play the back scratching game.Mr Modi supports Mr Advani from Gandhinagar and in return Mr Advani continues to give him protection for the heidous he did during the Godhra kand. Not only this the BJP led government who flaunts its anti-terrorist schemes stood humiliated when three terrorists to Kandahar were escorted by Jaswant Singh in exchange for hostages.