Elections to the Delhi Legislative Assembly were held on 7 February, and the result came to be known on 10. It was a huge surprise. The Aam Admi Party(AAP) got 67 out of seventy, while the BJP, in spite of its control on the national government with the charismatic Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, got only three. The Congress got none, yes, none at all. Is such a result going to be an exception in the Indian politics, or does it show the shape of things to come? I do not think anybody will dare to answer right now.
The Congress obtained only 9 % of the votes polled. This shows that there is tremendous disappointment among the people with the Congress, or rather with the dynasty that rules it. Rajdeep Sardesai's book, 2014, makes it clear how the mother and the son failed to present any constructive initiative before the electorate at the Lok Sabha elections in May 2014. It will be beyond comprehension if they both do not retire now from the Presidentship and the Vice-Presentship of the Party. The Party itself had better, at least for the time being, dissolve itself into something of Mahatma Gandhi's Lok Sevak Sangh, of which we have again been reminded just a couple of weeks ago, on 30 January.
In terms of the votes, the BJP, with its 32 %, has not done so badly. In the Lok Sabha it polled 31 %, and got the landslide victory. Still their defeat is a surprise when the party has got all the seven Parliamentary seats from Delhi. The only possible explanation is that their policies have not been sufficiently pro-poor. Also, against the AAP, who represents the anti-corruption mood in the country, the BJP has not been seen as an anti-corruption party.
Now the AAP, which has got an scary 54 %. I have seen Mr. Kejriwal on the TV who was by the side of the fasting Anna Hazare in Delhi in August 2011. Is he able to retain the control on the government this time and go ahead with the anti-corruption programme? Is he able to build his party in other States also to be the viable force to oppose the BJP with a more pro-poor policy, and to take the place of the Congress? Everything is uncertain. But the Indian politics has become suddenly very volatile.
The Congress obtained only 9 % of the votes polled. This shows that there is tremendous disappointment among the people with the Congress, or rather with the dynasty that rules it. Rajdeep Sardesai's book, 2014, makes it clear how the mother and the son failed to present any constructive initiative before the electorate at the Lok Sabha elections in May 2014. It will be beyond comprehension if they both do not retire now from the Presidentship and the Vice-Presentship of the Party. The Party itself had better, at least for the time being, dissolve itself into something of Mahatma Gandhi's Lok Sevak Sangh, of which we have again been reminded just a couple of weeks ago, on 30 January.
In terms of the votes, the BJP, with its 32 %, has not done so badly. In the Lok Sabha it polled 31 %, and got the landslide victory. Still their defeat is a surprise when the party has got all the seven Parliamentary seats from Delhi. The only possible explanation is that their policies have not been sufficiently pro-poor. Also, against the AAP, who represents the anti-corruption mood in the country, the BJP has not been seen as an anti-corruption party.
Now the AAP, which has got an scary 54 %. I have seen Mr. Kejriwal on the TV who was by the side of the fasting Anna Hazare in Delhi in August 2011. Is he able to retain the control on the government this time and go ahead with the anti-corruption programme? Is he able to build his party in other States also to be the viable force to oppose the BJP with a more pro-poor policy, and to take the place of the Congress? Everything is uncertain. But the Indian politics has become suddenly very volatile.
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