The recently concluded elections in India has a very important thing to prove, hard work pays! The last Congress government had done a marvelous job in not just appeasing the urban population but the rural population as well. The impact of global recession has so far been virtually absent from India. Even though impact was severe in some businesses like the diamond and real estate, the larger work force in India enjoyed perks and bonuses this March as well. On Financial grounds, Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram have done a commendable job. The well regulated banking structure has paid its dividend by shielding India from the global recession at a point in history where even countries were going bankrupt (remember Iceland?).
By giving an absolute majority to the UPA (Congress + allies), the Indian voters have shunned the whining Left and idiotic BJP. The campaign by the BJP became a laughing stock for many. The inane grounds on which these ads were based, created a sense of irritation among the India voters. I strongly feel that the youth of India has supported the Congress and I personally know few who were previously ardent BJP supporters but have now diverted to Congress. Lack of leadership, vision and dogmatic views are major factors that have gone against the BJP. Advani as PM would have been disastrous for the country and Modi is their PM candidate for 2014, then only Rakhi Sawant as Congress PM candidate would deter voters from voting for Congress.
I have head so many professionals praise Modi for the job he is doing in Gujarat. Their appreciation is influenced by deep sense of hatred for minorities (Muslims and Christians), Gandhi family and short sighted view of the world. They tend to forget the fact that Gujarat has always been industrially advanced than most states in the country and thus by making investment climate corporate friendly there, Modi had done no magic. Consider the case of Nitish Kumar, the CM of Bihar. His hard work is slowly bringing in investments into the region, which Lalu had completely destroyed in its 20 years of rule. Inspite of having, undoubtedly, the best brains in the country, the state failed to tap the brilliance of Bihari youth who had handicaps of lack of high quality education in the state. The scene is slowly changing in the state for good and the electorate their understand this! Modi is no Nitish and he can never be, at least on this planet.
The results of this election should lay grounds for existing state and central government to work hard or face the axe in the next elections. This year’s results have shunned the previously existing notion of quality of governance being a no factor and anti incumbency factor being inevitable.
I hope the Congress continues its good work for another 5 years as well.
