Gujarat Election: Some Positive Indications
Posted : December 26, 2007 at 6:18 am [IST]
Media, particularly the English one, is still busy in degenerating BJP by raising the bogey of Moditva vs. Hindutva, BJP chief’s cool reaction, and absence of NDA leaders from the oath taking ceremoney of Modi. However, I have started dreaming a bright future for the democracy and the people after observing a little analytically the outcome of the assembly election.
Caste is becoming less important. Leaders of Patel community with significant influence went against Modi. They tried to influence the people of the caste to get Modi’s candidates defeated through various appeals in media and door-to-door compaign too. But the drive didn’t cause any damage.
Mayawati inspired by her recent well-publicised social engineering feat in UP tried her successful experiment in Gujarat. Unfortunately or fortunately, she failed miserably to make a dent. Her party couldn’t open its account. Her dream to capture Delhi must have got a set back. It may be that ‘Delhi door hai’.
Gandhi- Nehru charisma is failing to get vote good enough to make a win. Sonia Gandhi worked really hard. Even Rahul Gandhi was used extensively. Their sycophants managed crowd in their election rally, but failed to make Congress win Gujarat. Perhps in years to come with totally new generation going to polling booth, the new voters will hardly give much weightage to the Congress Party because of it being headed by someone from Gandhi-Nehru family.
Money in compaign can’t much change the mind of the people. As per one estimate reported in Mail Today on December 25, Rs 450 crore was spent by Congress to win Gujarat from Modi. It meant almost more than Rs 2 crore per seat. However, it couldn’t win the llection for Congress and Soniaji.
Development gets appreciated. “Modi has been successful in merging muscular Hindutva and Gujarati asmita (self-respect) with a commitment to good governance.” Work done by the government does matter. Though Yachuri painted a very poor picture of Gujarat, some of the stunning facts of the development under Modi and certain aspects of good governance can’t be overlooked: “Value of farm-output had grown four times. School drop-out rate was down to 3% from over 40%. All villages, without exception, were getting 24 hour, 3-phase power for homes. Besides, the pipelines and canals fetching Narmada water, more than 140,000 check-dams and village ponds across the state had solved the drinking-water and irrigation problems in a state that was perennially drought prone, arid and dependent on water-tankers ferrying expensive water. The number of registered unemployed in Gujarat had actually declined by over 15%. Almost one lakh rural-poor expecting mothers had delivered, assisted by private gynecologists, all paid for by the state. To top it all, the past five years were riot-free, curfew-free, and despite being targeted by several terror groups from across the borders, terror-strike-free.”
As reported, fundamentalists, be it named cadre of RSS, VHP, Bajarang Dal hardly matter. None helped Modi. Many a times, they may spoil the chance.
I assume what I have concluded come right in years for the country. Let the chief ministers and central ministers take some lessons and don’t work on wasteful activities.
- Indra
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