Logic in electoral platform?
Don't punish me for up govt.'s follies, beseeches mulayam singh. So should congress say, not to punish it for the follies of the sonia-manmohan duo. That is exactly what lalu-rabri pleaded in bihar but failed. No, no. That is incorrect to say that they failed. In fact they did succeed, but what failed them was the three cornered contest, bjp-nitish in coalition which surmounted lalu-ramvilas whose votes were split by congress. Had the congress been in coalition with lalu-ramvilas, bjp-nitish(jdu) would have tasted defeat. The situation would have been worse if nitish and bjp were apart, as they are now. Suffice it to say that misgovernance may not necessarily unseat a ruling party. Rightly or wrongly, 2002 gujarat riots are cited as an example of mis-governance. Yet modi returned to power and kept returning despite national hue and cry. What must be realised is the reality that indian electoral platform is too skatty and bereft of logic. The promptings that motivate the electorate are equally ignoble. And above all, likes of mulayam, lalu, ramvilas know how to exploit it. So, their success in hitting their target, can not be wished away, much less ruled out, inasmuch as any logical appraisals would be illogical.