Unpredictable Indian Voters

In 65 years of Indian democracy, Indians have exercised their adult franchise many a times yet their mood and sense to select a electoral representative for Lok Sabha and Assembly always seems to be far from reality and logical sense. They always seem to be fantasizing in the dream world to elect a macho person who would find the solution of their problem magically. They treat their representative to be a super hero as they have seen in the bollywood movies. Not surprisingly the result of the 2014 Lok sabha election has surpassed all poll predictions and given a clear mandate to the BJP and Mr. Narendra Modi.

There are few things which has been special in this elections are the large turn-out of voters to exercise their voting rights for electing the candidates, secondly the number of young voters formed the large chunk of electoral battle. The third and the major factor which led the NDA achieve this major hall mark of seats were the anger of the people because of the price rise, inflation, corruption, scams and un-responsive attitude of incumbent government towards the common people.

Apart from this, the mega marketing style of Mr. Narendra Modi which supposedly costed  5000 crores,  also created a great euphoria among the large section of the society that culminated into votes. Although, critiques does not endorsed all the poll promises of Mr. Modi or the BJP, it was the marketing style which influenced the individual voters to believe the promises to be really becoming true if Mr. Modi comes to power. When the election campaign of Mr. Modi started it had a lot to say about the development model of Gujarat and rescuing country from misdeeds of congress’s government but at the end of the campaign there were instances of wooing caste and religion too for the votes.

Now that the massive victory of BJP is out in the middle, it is very difficult to understand the mindset of the Indian voters. The poll pundits and analysts speculations have time and gain gone wrong in the recent past except  during Lok Sabha election of 1977, which was speculated to be clearly against the then Indira Gandhi Government. This time too there was a clear wave against congress yet the clear majority of BJP was not clearly written on the wall. As a result, all that has happened is quite surprising.

At a time when BJP is happy about this result and forming government in the center, its time for the opposition to understand as to how they could gear-up against the ruling party on the road ahead. Because in the coming assembly elections in few states the winning factor of BJP would definitely edge them over the opposition.  The real challenge is to be a strong opposition now to the ruling BJP in the center and be a strong contender of the assembly election in the states. Now, how the opposition look at their poll debacle in this concluded Lok Sabha election and introspect various mistakes they committed, will lead them to use their wisdom to look ahead fighting assembly elections.  

Assembly elections are largely fought on the basis of the local issues yet the policies of the center does play a greater role. Whether the coming assembly elections results would also be surprising or will it be on the line of BJP way is to be seen again. But the Indian voters would remain unpredictable for sure. 

The results are eye opener

15th Lok Sabha results are out and with this many of the parties too are out. The pollster’s projections before the election of a hung parliament turned out to be the worst ever forecasted projection in the Indian electoral history. Most of the people and politicians who thought of a hung parliament are smelling dust now. Third front which boasted of forming government at the centre could not save their own skin. Fourth front which roar high before election are acting like the rat. The main opposition party which could benefit much due to the anti incumbency factor could not capitalize the votes due to infighting within the party, lack of interest among the politicians to work cohesively, and riding on the old issues of the Ram and Hindu sentiments. The prime-ministerial candidate who looked strong by virtue of his political career lost face because of indiscipline and misconduct of his party members even on the eve of election month.

According to the media and several other learned people who have seen numerous election, this one was most special and most difficult to analyze till the last moment as to who is going to get the majority. No one was clear about any thing. Everyone was projecting the result into their own favour. People were highly confused whom to vote. During this recession time this election was definitely very important one because whosoever is going to rule the rust had to be stable and stability before election seem to be the last thing possible according to the projection. But whatever happened, whichever way it happened, it has happened the best for the country. At this point of time, it is very difficult to analyze how the victorious UPA combination won the election.

However, one thing is very clearly visible, the corrupt politicians like Lalu, Paswan, Mulayam, Amar Singh Choudhary have numbered days in the Indian politics. Other regional parties such TRS, film actor Chiranjeevi’s outfit, and big time TDP all had to see the exit door. But at the same time BJD and JD (U) in Orissa and Bihar has done wonderfully well and proven the projected statistics once again wrong. For Chandrababu Naidu definitely this election would be nightmare and will take time to digest the fact. But for Naveen Patnaik and Nitish, this is the mandate of the people towards their untiring effort of bring development in the state and curbing corruption in the public life.

This is again the election for BJP to understand the fact of good governance and development and not to play the politics of hate and religion. This is the time for politicians to realize region, religion, fake promises will no more go down well with the people. The message is very clear, “perform or perish”.

The result of this election can not be believed so easily, as to how come Indian people have shown their character and have chosen the right person at centre. The people who had spoken about Dr. Man Mohan Singh as the weakest prime minister would certainly see his strength. Truly, now Singh is King. He ran the last government full term with the most corrupted people with him, now the time has come he can have best people to govern India and make the country more strong even during the recession. we will see 15th Lok Sabha results are out and with this many of the parties too are out. The pollster’s projections before the election of a hung parliament turned out to be the worst ever forecasted projection in the Indian electoral history. Most of the people and politicians who thought of a hung parliament are smelling dust now. Third front which boasted of forming government at the centre could not save their own skin. Fourth front which roar high before election are acting like the rat. The main opposition party which could benefit much due to the anti incumbency factor could not capitalize the votes due to infighting within the party, lack of interest among the politicians to work cohesively, and riding on the old issues of the Ram and Hindu sentiments. The prime-ministerial candidate who looked strong by virtue of his political career lost face because of indiscipline and misconduct of his party members even on the eve of election month.

According to the media and several other learned people who have seen numerous election, this one was most special and most difficult to analyze till the last moment as to who is going to get the majority. No one was clear about any thing. Everyone was projecting the result into their own favour. People were highly confused whom to vote. During this recession time this election was definitely very important one because whosoever is going to rule the rust had to be stable and stability before election seem to be the last thing possible according to the projection. But whatever happened, whichever way it happened, it has happened the best for the country. At this point of time, it is very difficult to analyze how the victorious UPA combination won the election.

However, one thing is very clearly visible, the corrupt politicians like Lalu, Paswan, Mulayam, Amar Singh Choudhary have numbered days in the Indian politics. Other regional parties such TRS, film actor Chiranjeevi’s outfit, and big time TDP all had to see the exit door. But at the same time BJD and JD (U) in Orissa and Bihar has done wonderfully well and proven the projected statistics once again wrong. For Chandrababu Naidu definitely this election would be nightmare and will take time to digest the fact. But for Naveen Patnaik and Nitish, this is the mandate of the people towards their untiring effort of bring development in the state and curbing corruption in the public life.

This is again the election for BJP to understand the fact of good governance and development and not to play the politics of hate and religion. This is the time for politicians to realize region, religion, fake promises will no more go down well with the people. The message is very clear, “perform or perish”.

The result of this election can not be believed so easily, as to how come Indian people have shown their character and have chosen the right person at centre. The people who had spoken about Dr. Man Mohan Singh as the weakest prime minister would certainly see his strength. Truly, now Singh is King. He ran the last government full term with the most corrupted people with him, now the time has come he can have best people to govern India and make the country more strong even during the recession. We will see the real test of him in the coming months and I am sure he is going to deliver. Because, there will be no Lalu, Paswan, Mulayam, and Ramdoss to twist his arms. Well, we will see many more things coming out in few days time. But for now at least let us listen and dance on the tune of ‘Singh is Kings…………’.