The defeat of the BJP in all the
five states in the recent election may be shocking to the BJP ,but not to the
voters of these states. All the sections of the voters with variety of
grievances shown their anger and decided to vote against BJP.
In the 2014 parliamentary election, corruption and policy paralysis voted
out the Congress party . Now, the nation is disappointed with the huge gap
between promises and performance, especially in the economic front, because of
their disastrous economic policies. The other dominant reasons are,
the insecurity created in the minds of minorities, the untold miseries
suffered by small enterprises and the poor and middle class due to
demonetisation , tax terrorism caused by the imperfect GST structure , the oil
prices affecting every house hold , the anger of the youth on jobless growth,
the helpless and frustrating situation of the agriculturists , the non
recognition of the basic needs of the Dalits and Tribal’s , the
hate speeches expressed towards Muslims and tolerated by the leaders ,
the hatred towards intellectuals and resulting in their murders ,
severe attack on freedom of expression, the branding of the social
activists as anti nationals and urban Naxals when, they try to expose
corporate conflicts with environment , the polarising efforts to create
disharmony among communities and the meddling with the independence of
CBI, RBI etc., and the attempts to safronise every social and
cultural institutions through selection of persons for top posts based on
their ideology and not on their merits . Mainly , PM, Mode is looked
upon as the PM for the billionaire corporate giants
. The election results should not be misunderstood as a
strong signal that would guarantee an unconditional mandate to the
Congress Party to rule the nation in 2019. They have to take lot of efforts at the ground level and remove conflicts between factions within the state units of the congress party. Delicate balancing act has to be exercised by Ragul Ghandhi to prevent clashes between junior and senior leaders . The present poll
verdict reflect only the collective anger of the disappointed
electorate of India and not overwhelming support for the Congress party . This is the beauty of a functioning democracy .
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