Election Results

The results are out. These could mean different things too different people in different states/situations. Some of them are:

1. Bad strategy by BJP. Instead of ensuring the defeat of its main rival Congress in places where other parties were strong, it contested elections there knowing fully well it will definitely lose and thus splitting anti-congress vote.

2. Vociferous projection of MMS as Prime Ministerial candidate of Congress paid off handsomely.

3. Hindutwa is a dead horse. Where people voted for BJP it was as an alternative to Congress and not for Hindutwa. I think there was no voting on communal lines.

4. Chiranjeevi ensured the success of Congress in AP. There appears to be a tacit understanding.

5. Telangana issue is rejected in AP and buried atleast for next 5 years.

6. Tails waggers given royal drubbing. See Pawar, Lalu, Paswan, Fellow Travellers, Mayavati, Jayalalita. Their chests were puffed up with self importance.Their true forms stand revealed as if the coroset has been removed.

7. Decent politicians like Nitish Kumar and Naveen Patnaik swept into reckoning. Good auger.

8. Congress and BJP should take the polity forward into a 2-party system which people are really craving for.

9. Was it a vote against building a Ram Mandir sometime in year 3009?

10. Was it a vote against pub culture in Karnataka? Moral policing up up.

11. Does conservative Rajasthan continue to punish Vasundhara for her public lip lock?

12. Is it a vote for family incorporated in Tamil Nadu?

13. Bengalis have solidly voted against modernisation and industries it appears.

14. In AP corruption, suicides, power cuts, etc were no big deal. PRP ensured that.

15. In TN, one friend of Prabhakaran is gloating while another has bitten the dust. What is the Pattern?

The dance of democracy is indeed colourful vibrant and satisfying. The real winner is Indian democracy. Nepal, Bangldesh, Pakistan, Mynamar could learn some lessons.

...ponder