Indian democracy as usual stands gigantic in this
world. People are always hopeful and
want to work towards change that can change their lives. Election – 2014 is unique as the two
contending parties had declared their leader, future Prime Minister if the
party comes to power. The oldest party
which ruled the country for almost 60 years had young reluctant leader with
little experience in governance. The
other party had the ambitious leader with a track record of development and
good governance. Both the parties have
their set of mismanagement of a critical situation resulting in bloodbath
targeting a particular community. The
issues have become old to the younger generation which is looking forward to
move ahead for progress.
Congress party has faced its first ever worst debacle. The party burdened by corruption and
inefficiency wanted to project its candidate as Young Mr. Clean. Castigating the other party for its
‘Hindutva’ leanings did not benefit them.
All the criticisms against the other Prime Ministerial candidate have
boomeranged. Mr. Narendra Modi had
tactfully dealt with it making him more imposing. In addition his development of Gujarat
story has swayed the youth in his favour.
Arvind Kejriwal who had given some hope to the people a few months ago
lost faith for failure to govern Delhi . The colossal blunder he made by resigning as
Chief Minister of Delhi will haunt
him for many more years.
In fact, in these elections people had little choice. They had to elect either a man with ambition
and enthusiasm to make India
a developed ‘Hindustan ’ or a novice who appears always
busy in revival of party and bask in the glory of family ‘martyrdom’ and
without any vision for progressive India . Now Mr. Rahul has at least a decade to
develop his ancestral party from grass roots and become a seasoned politician
with vision.
Congress leaders in
Telangana are unable to understand reasons for their debacle in the state. They thought that once Telangana is given
they will win all seats in Telangana.
Few leaders, who took part in Telangana agitation and part of JAC for
sometime, had later followed their high command’s command and withdrew from
JAC. None of the ministers ever bothered
to protect the agitating students from illegal arrests. Instead they got
students, who had done ‘dharna’ or ‘gheraod’ them demanding their resignation
to their posts in support of Telangana, arrested. The Congress leaders or
Ministers never protested Kiran Kumar Reddy’s vile statements in Assembly or
Press conferences after CWC announced positively on formation of Telangana. When youth committed suicide aspiring for
Telangana none of the Congress leaders showed any concern, neither the leaders
in the Centre addressed the Telangana student community or youth to not to
commit suicide as the process of Telangana is on the track will be finished in
due course and Telangana for sure will be reality in the future. The unsympathetic, arrogant, dictatorial acts
by the local leaders and comments trivializing Telangana issues by some Central
leaders and stoic silence by the Prime Minister and Sonia G had hurt
Telanganites and that is expressed by vote.
Few leaders who won could be due to the good they have done
to their segments in the past. The few
seats gained by TDP are because of the ‘settlers’.
In the democracy people do not vote just by listening to what
the contestants or leaders say at the time of elections. They evaluate them from the day they won. Their activity/programmes/governance that has
effect on their life in the past few years is not forgotten. This is like internal assessment. And when they contest again considering all
these the party or person is given the ranking.
The lucky winner in these
elections is the ‘power star’. Few weeks
before elections he established a party.
His party's second meeting in Vizag was not a success. He never contested nor anybody from his
party. But his party has become part of
NDA. His campaign resulted loss of votes
to BJP in Telangana. The TDP-BJP combine
win in Seemaandhra had made him a star campaigner close to Shri Narendra Modi,
the Prime Minister elect of India .
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