Government versus voters

Amusing.

That is what I would call the recent parliament election results.

Irony is that, some news channels and analyst forums are trying to show it as 'vote for good governance'.

Good governance for last 5 years?

Has the naxalite movements being channelised to better directions?

Have we been able to stop the violent activities of the nothing-else-to-do maoists?

Did we do the right thing and the best thing after the Mumbai attacks?

Have we contributed much to the development of J&K (remember the politicising of amarnath land)?

I have nothing against the ruling UPA personally, but the way the results are being projected as 'win for good governance', I am against it.

It is as usual, vote for varied reasons, there was no single/multiple unified agenda for the parliament elections. Some regional feelings, some political dynasty emotions, some got-to-vote-for-someone and so on ...

And some analysts are calling this election as 'death of communal forces'.
What??? With 150+ MPs of NDA, and given that it is termed as the 'communal forces' by the media, would you call it as death?

... the varied reasons also include communal feelings, regional petty politics (remember the anti-northindia movement in MH?) and the Gandhi factor in UP.

Nevertheless, I have a feeling that if our PM can be more adventurous, and decide to give the home ministry to Rahul Gandhi, it will be very eventful and hopefully there will be some positive steps towards a better india. I am assuming that Rahul has no personal agenda because he is already being given everything in a platter, he should use this opportunity to actually make a difference. And with youth on his side, and some innovative thinking, he can take the governance to another level.

Have you seen this , that lists out some young MPs with famous fathers/grandfathers in politics? I would not mind them as long as they don't have a personal agenda. One way, given that they are already so privileged, they can do lot better than others who are still building their money empires from politics in their first generation.

:) Some positive thought that is!