Election time is festival time in the world's largest demo-crazy .While most of the elite stay back and lament the futility of voting and revel in their apathy and the accompanying laziness ,the so called lower classes never fail to impress with their persistent confidence in the constitution and its rights ,which they believe will some day be theirs too.
This Assembly elections saw extensive media coverage,one ,because the largest state was going to vote and most importantly this was a battle between two Yuvarajas.These elections were also considered a heralder of the coming General elections due in 2014 or going by the results, any time now .
I would like to congratulate the winners of these elections and also wish the losers better luck and better planning next time .
The first important lesson from these elections was the triumph of the election commission .The decision to drape all of Behenji's elephants (and prompt undraping after the polling ) drew flak from many but the Commissioner stuck to his decision and played the game on his own terms .The draping of her many elephants might have been a foreboding of evil for Mayavati .Now that the polling is over ,the numbers in many places has resulted in appreciation of the EC and he has had the last laugh .Well done Mr.Qureshi and team !
The second important boost is for the BJP .The desperate party has not only done considerably well but also laid the ghost of Modi's indispensability to rest awhile .While much fuss was made in the media about the political rivalries surrounding Modi's campaigning absence ,the advertisement seems to have helped the BJP gain fair ground .Let us sincerely hope that this does not lead to a resurrection of the RamjanmaBhoomi agenda .
The most important lesson of all has been taught to our uncrowned Prince of princes ,Rahul Gandhi .As a future Prime ministerial candidate ,he needed to provide a vision for a stronger and definitely lesser corrupt leadership .People looking up to him to see a glimpse of the strength of his grandmother or the charisma of his father were rather disillusioned to see him imitate the populism of too many unmentionable politicians.
Here was a man who could not do a thing as simple as cleaning his home ,set on a Herculean task of cleaning the country .People must have found this amusing .If he had no plan or power (?) he had no business to behave like a child who found a new toy in the socially oppressed classes .They too must have found him an expensive toy .
While his many gimmicks drew much attention and Ooh la la in the media, the common man seems to have pressed his lips and pouted like P.V.Narasimha Rao.He needs a thorough rework of his image and his advisers ,if at all any .In a country shamed by the unprecedented corruption in the present government ,all image over- do has to begin from within and from removing the corrupt ,speeding up the investigations and most of all stop telling lame duck coalition compulsion excuses .Without this , food sharing ,breaking the security cordon kind of dramas will lead him only to oblivion .Let's hope, someone ,dares to tell him this .
Rahul might have noble intentions (though it seems improbable) but he has no means and he has no methods.And now he has time until 2014 to introspect and to learn from the example of Akhilesh Yadav .
Lets hope he has learnt his lesson and will go beyond accepting the usual moral responsibility .
Beware the Ides of March !
This Assembly elections saw extensive media coverage,one ,because the largest state was going to vote and most importantly this was a battle between two Yuvarajas.These elections were also considered a heralder of the coming General elections due in 2014 or going by the results, any time now .
I would like to congratulate the winners of these elections and also wish the losers better luck and better planning next time .
The first important lesson from these elections was the triumph of the election commission .The decision to drape all of Behenji's elephants (and prompt undraping after the polling ) drew flak from many but the Commissioner stuck to his decision and played the game on his own terms .The draping of her many elephants might have been a foreboding of evil for Mayavati .Now that the polling is over ,the numbers in many places has resulted in appreciation of the EC and he has had the last laugh .Well done Mr.Qureshi and team !
The second important boost is for the BJP .The desperate party has not only done considerably well but also laid the ghost of Modi's indispensability to rest awhile .While much fuss was made in the media about the political rivalries surrounding Modi's campaigning absence ,the advertisement seems to have helped the BJP gain fair ground .Let us sincerely hope that this does not lead to a resurrection of the RamjanmaBhoomi agenda .
The most important lesson of all has been taught to our uncrowned Prince of princes ,Rahul Gandhi .As a future Prime ministerial candidate ,he needed to provide a vision for a stronger and definitely lesser corrupt leadership .People looking up to him to see a glimpse of the strength of his grandmother or the charisma of his father were rather disillusioned to see him imitate the populism of too many unmentionable politicians.
Here was a man who could not do a thing as simple as cleaning his home ,set on a Herculean task of cleaning the country .People must have found this amusing .If he had no plan or power (?) he had no business to behave like a child who found a new toy in the socially oppressed classes .They too must have found him an expensive toy .
While his many gimmicks drew much attention and Ooh la la in the media, the common man seems to have pressed his lips and pouted like P.V.Narasimha Rao.He needs a thorough rework of his image and his advisers ,if at all any .In a country shamed by the unprecedented corruption in the present government ,all image over- do has to begin from within and from removing the corrupt ,speeding up the investigations and most of all stop telling lame duck coalition compulsion excuses .Without this , food sharing ,breaking the security cordon kind of dramas will lead him only to oblivion .Let's hope, someone ,dares to tell him this .
Rahul might have noble intentions (though it seems improbable) but he has no means and he has no methods.And now he has time until 2014 to introspect and to learn from the example of Akhilesh Yadav .
Lets hope he has learnt his lesson and will go beyond accepting the usual moral responsibility .
Beware the Ides of March !
