Monday, May 18, 2009

Indian Election 09 - A shift in paradigm

After this year General Election, almost all of the Exit Pole predicted that Congress led UPA would get around 205 to 215 whereas NDA could get around 175 to 195. Lastly the 3rd Front could take a deterministic role to form a government.
Now after the result, we saw a clear verdict to the Congress led UPA so that they can't even need the support of the Left. Probably even the blind Congress supporter never thought that the party got the highest number of seats since 1991.
Why there is so much swing?
Lots of people are talking about the fact that electorate understood that the only UPA can provide the stability and hence they casted their vote for UPA. Do you think our electorates are that matured? I don't think so.
Rahul's image has also worked for Congress, true.
Might the projection of Modi as a possible prime minister candidate disrupted the chance of NDA.
But this election probably claim a special position to the Indian History as probably this is the for the first time after a long period, caste dalit votes didn't impact much.
If this is the silver line behind the cloud then there is also some aberration.
In WestBengal TMC inspite of having dirty politics got a majority of the seats. Probably that is the only state where people didn't cast their vote for development.
At the end, we can safely say "Singh is King, Singh is King, Singh is King !!" :-)

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