After the way the recent Parliamentary elections had passed one was beginning to feel smug about the fact that the way the majority looked at politics had undergone a sea change, a metamorphosis. It was assumed that deliverance was the ultimate trump card, the reason for a rank outsider like Narendra Modi, who went on to be anointed Prime Minister.
The other side of the argument would be that the Congress-led dispensations, over ten years, had crossed all limits of decency and morality and had got sucked into a quagmire of scams from the CWG to the spectrum to the coal block allocations! The proverbial nail on the coffin was the revelation that while Manmohan Singh sat on the Prime Minister's chair, all important files went to Sonia Gandhi for scrutiny and decisions. The disillusionment towards her and her unimpressive son, the heir-in-waiting was total and devastating, all the tricks that they pulled out during the elections, notwithstanding.
They'd to bite dust and they did, Modi looked the 'knight in shining armour' and assumed the mantle of leadership with consummate ease. His party won a great victory and his staunch critic, Nitish Kumar of Bihar even went on to resign the post of chief minister!
But barely three months later, a coalition cobbled up between bitter enemies, Nitish Kumar and Laloo Prasad Yadav on the basis of caste has won six out of the ten seats in the Assembly bypolls. How could it happen? Is it any of these or a combination? Let me try to list them out:-
(a) Disillusionment - so soon, that too - about the BJP's performance at the centre, thus far?
(b) Assembly polls have differing dynamics, it has nothing to do with the performance of the central
government.
(c) Caste and regional politics cannot be wished away.
(d) The people of Bihar acknowledges the good done during Nitish Kumar's tenure as the chief
minister.
Baffling? Who'll have the last laugh, then, in the forthcoming Assembly polls?
Tailpiece.
Consequent to Kerala heading for prohibition - tomorrow will see the shutdown of all bars, except for the ones in the 5 star hotels, for starters - a lot many jokes/smses have sprung. Sample just a couple:-
(a) Trivandrum is being renamed 'Trivand'!
(b) A matrimonial ad - Bride required. Caste, creed, religion no bar. Should be daughter of
ex-military person with adequate liquor quota!
The other side of the argument would be that the Congress-led dispensations, over ten years, had crossed all limits of decency and morality and had got sucked into a quagmire of scams from the CWG to the spectrum to the coal block allocations! The proverbial nail on the coffin was the revelation that while Manmohan Singh sat on the Prime Minister's chair, all important files went to Sonia Gandhi for scrutiny and decisions. The disillusionment towards her and her unimpressive son, the heir-in-waiting was total and devastating, all the tricks that they pulled out during the elections, notwithstanding.
They'd to bite dust and they did, Modi looked the 'knight in shining armour' and assumed the mantle of leadership with consummate ease. His party won a great victory and his staunch critic, Nitish Kumar of Bihar even went on to resign the post of chief minister!
But barely three months later, a coalition cobbled up between bitter enemies, Nitish Kumar and Laloo Prasad Yadav on the basis of caste has won six out of the ten seats in the Assembly bypolls. How could it happen? Is it any of these or a combination? Let me try to list them out:-
(a) Disillusionment - so soon, that too - about the BJP's performance at the centre, thus far?
(b) Assembly polls have differing dynamics, it has nothing to do with the performance of the central
government.
(c) Caste and regional politics cannot be wished away.
(d) The people of Bihar acknowledges the good done during Nitish Kumar's tenure as the chief
minister.
Baffling? Who'll have the last laugh, then, in the forthcoming Assembly polls?
Tailpiece.
Consequent to Kerala heading for prohibition - tomorrow will see the shutdown of all bars, except for the ones in the 5 star hotels, for starters - a lot many jokes/smses have sprung. Sample just a couple:-
(a) Trivandrum is being renamed 'Trivand'!
(b) A matrimonial ad - Bride required. Caste, creed, religion no bar. Should be daughter of
ex-military person with adequate liquor quota!
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