Monday, December 8, 2008

State Election Roundup

Congress retained Delhi, won Mizoram & Rajasthan
BJP retained MP and Chattisgarh and Lost Rajasthan

Here is my analysis of the elections.
Rajasthan: The big factor was Maharaniji and growing corruption. Ashok Gehlot will be a welcome relief to the folks.
MP & Chattisgarh: Development was the main plank. BJP was able to score over Congress in the same.
Delhi: Shielaji's personal magic is still at work. No wonder, family-croons are hesitant to touch her. She made lots of mistakes this time. However, electorate forgave due to the development which she brought in.

Now, lets analyse other factors.
Development: Seems to be a big factor in here. People have voted for the same.
Media: Congress seem to be controlling all major media outlets. It created the myth of Hindu terrorists and ran a smear campaign through the active collaboration of Media. Media also played a bad game of suppressing anti-Congress news and high-lighting anti-BJP stuff. How else can you explain that MP vote scandal was totally suppressed even when they had irrefutable proof.
Terrorism: A big agenda which was turned into Congress favour by media. Instead of blaming the ruling party, the media started bashing up "Political Class". And grouped Congress and BJP together. Thus, this was utilized by Congress in actually covering its own mess.
Congress: Its 1980s again when Congress controlled everything. They successfully managed media and utilized Police to put BJP on back foot. ATS through systematic leaks tried to malign BJP as much as possible.

So, what. Still the voters have delivered a correct verdict. And shown that they are mature enough to sift right from wrong. In my view, the verdicts cannot be any better.

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