After finishing evening snacks, Saurabh connected laptop to TV and we started watching CNN-IBN live tv. 4 score-card counters were flashing on TV, each for UPA, NDA and Third Front, Forth Front.... And the first result came from Andhra Assembly election. TDP achieved 1 leading seat. In couple of minutes, general election counters started changing... So far UPA was leading but the difference between UPA and NDA was small.
Then Tanmoy came to home and he screamed by looking at UPA is leading.. He and Saurabh were supporters of UPA and I was a supporter of NDA. I was still hoping NDA will come up or at least they will give a good fight to UPA... but every moment, the difference between UPA Leading and NDA Leading was becoming bigger and bigger. Apart from NDA, I was also counting on TDP (Telugu Desham Party: Chandrababu), TRS (Telangana Rashtra Samiti) , AIDMK (Jaylalitha's party), BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party: Maywati) because they are more or less anti-congress parties.. But all over India, a 'Hand' of Congress was waving.. Congress spokepersons were looking very happy and at the same time BJP spokepersons; with a dull face; were telling the same thing to newsperson "Let's wait and watch, it's not over". And at that time, Rajdeep Sardesai gave a good comment. "Look at the numbers of UPA and look at the numbers of NDA. NDA needs some Sachin Tendulkar who can turn the table". Finally UPA counter reached almost 250 by. And it was the end.
3 states turned the table. UP, W.Bengal and Maharashtra.
In UP, it was all "Rahul factor". Public threw Mayawati and Mulayam out and welcomed Congress after many years. Congress grabbed 21 seats. Public understood these 2 BSP and SP will fight with each other and won't do anything good for public. In W.Bengal, "Left" was beaten badly after 2-3 decades (I guess). And the biggest reason was nuclear deal, the way they withdrew the support from the government, public gave the correct answer to them in a same way. And 'Left' became 'Left over'. The alliance of congress and Trinamool got 25 out of 42. 18 seats more they got in comparison with the last year. What a sweep !!! In Maharashtra, MNS (Maharashtra Navnirman Sena:Raj Thakarey) and SS (Shiv Sena) split gave the advantage to Congress-NCP (National Congress Party:Sharad Pawar). Lot of candidates of Cong-NCP got the victory with very small margin of thousands. In Andra Pradesh, Y.S.Reddy was a star performer of congress by grabbing 33 out of 42. Delhi also got 7 out of 7. What a stunning performance by Shila Dixit.
BJP could not even match with the figure they got in 2004 General election under the leadership of Vajpayee. Even after addressing maximum number of rallies, Modi could not do much better even in Gujarat. BJP tried RamMandir, AfzalGuru, Terrorism, 'Kamzor Neta', Modi as PM, but nothing worked out. Finally it was a show of Sonia and Rahul. Mahmohan could not have achieved this figure without Sonia-Rahul. It was almost 3.30 AM and we were watching that Aruna Jaitely was addressing a news conference. He seemed to be speaking after weeping for an hour.
Though I was a supporter of NDA, I was happy that India got a stable government. What a show by congress. UPA got 262 including 206 achieved by Congress itself, just a 10 far from a magic figure. This is the best part that now they don't need all these so-called Kingmakers like Mulayam, Lalu, Jaylalitha, Mayaywati, Left, etc. They have been always a hurdle for a government. So it is good that, all are out of the boundary so a trio of Mahmohan-Sonia-Rahul' can can take proper decision. So that way I am so happy. So finally I can say, "Hindustan ki janta ne HAATH se milaya haath".
3 things are clear...
- The most powerful word is 'GANDHI', which hasn't been changed since freedom, and there is no scope in future.
- A lesson learnt by Lalu: "Talaab main rehkar Magarmachh se Dushmani humesha bhaari padti hai" and that will end up with "Dhobi ka kutta - na ghar ka, na ghaat ka"
- BJP will tumble like a house of cards. Just look at potential PM candidates in BJP post Vajpayee-Advani era.
Sushma Swaraj - A receptionist can't become manager
Murli Manohar Joshi - Does everybody know him?
Arun Jaitely - Seniority problem for others
Modi - It's like "Better Tamil hero be in Chennai rather than trying in Bollywood" ;)
2 comments:
You know.. you have caught the pulse! I was about to write on this topic and I surely will in few days :)
As I was reading your article, there came a small grin on my face when I read "Left was left out"! Such a relieving feeling. I guess we all were waiting to see a stable government with no lefts or rights attached to it!
And I feel the 'Rahul factor' has clicked because we all somewhere down connect to his thoughts. We all want to see a developed India. NDAs emphasis on Hindutva has become cliche with no endresult to it. I hope, I wish and I want this government now to march towards a more developed and safe country with the help of the young government!
Nisu, this can be the hottest topic of discussion right now. Everybody of a unanimous opinion that now mayawati, deve gowda, karat and all wont be able to play that puppet show, which they would have done otherwise. Now when i watch in news that UPA doesn't want support of BSP, but still mayawati offers unconditional supports and gives letter of support directly to President. I really cant stop laughing when I see all those so called kingmakers on TV. Probably India has got its most favourable results this time and it was clearly reflected when share market hit upper circuit in just 60 seconds. When last time UPA came into power market when down by 2000 points and this time when they came it went up by 2000 points, its just amazing. Potentially because of really sensible moves made by Rahul and ppl's trust towards rahul and manmohan. Now lets hope they will give the most competent government so far.
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