Election Article #4

Elections 2009 result: indications for the future

General election results in India are always the much awaited phenomenon at the national level. Lot of drama, lots of anxiousness is involved and the mandate that has came for 2009 stands for a real exciting finish to it. Nobody in the wildest of the dream would have imagined such a landslide win for congress party, especially after such dismal performance at the centre and lackluster leadership shown by it. Somehow though nothing seemed to have affected the performance of the party which came out so strong and is going to form the government without any major post poll alliance with any of the regional parties.
Once again it was proved that the road to delhi goes from the state of UP. And whole of the national media is all praise for the princely heir of congress Mr. Rahul Gandhi. Hard work does payoff and it does sooner than later as is evident in this case. Rahul’s slam bam rallies across the country seems to have worked its magic.
Anyhow this was the result. What I want to think for is the future implications of these results. Lalu’s complete political demise, Paswan losing his own seat, Mayawati cornered, Jayalalitha losing her voice, Left parties left stranded, Akali dal’s dismal performance, INLD’s complete backlash in haryana, shibu soren’s unceremonious exit in jharkhand, I mean all the above says one thing very very loud and clear:- “Regional parties are totally rejected at the central level”. This is a welcomed move for the future politicos of India. This will completely forgo the whole idea of kingmakers and the blackmail politics played by these regional parties. All these parties drew their strength from the chaos in the market and asked for bigger and better prices for their support. We all can certainly hope for a fresh new chapter in Indian politics after such massive landslide win of congress party. Not only that, even though it might be said that BJP performed really poorly, but still it has respectable numbers and some national consensus too. Surely BJP can be a good constructive opposition in the parliament for the nation.
Indian politics should revolve around two poles only, at the national level, these are undoubtedly Congress and BJP as of now, and these election results are a move in that direction.
It might however be too soon to really presume such a phenomenon, because none of these lost leaders are going to conceive defeat that easily and we might have to witness some real hard times and violent times even before there is a long lasting peace. The founding stone however has been laid……