Gujarat verdict: A serious wake up call for the Prime Minister and BJP

The Poll seems to be irrelevant now that the results are out. The GST implementation issues did not affect the votes and the election was not about “Inaction against corrupt”. This is not to say that the Corrupt should not be penalized infact I would be very happy if some of the UPA-II scum bags goto jail.

BJP seems to have lost lot of votes due to agrarian distress which is very manageable. What needs to be reigned is ASAP is the fringe groups taking law into their own hands in BJP ruled states – remember the UNA incident. It gives the impression that Modi does not care about the minorities.

A friend of mine was mentioning, while the counting of votes was in progress, that if BJP loses chances of India being broken up into different countries is high to which I definitely agree given the Islamic protests during Jallikattu, Islamic protests in Bangalore in the Theosophical society, Beef eating festivals organized by Christians/Naxalites in Osmania Univeristy .. etc

In some, we cannot have parties like Congress, Lalu Prasad Yadav clan, Mulayam Yadav clan, DMK, BSP, TMC … etc to power at the center at any cost.

Making the investigation agencies to pursue the cases like national herald, bofors ,augustaland, chidambaram cases ndtv cases and bringing to logical end by the year ending 2018 will bring lot of relief to the country

We all wish that the corrupts from past government be punished for their crime. But we have to remember that unfortunately (or fortunately) our court system works on the principle, “If hundred culprits go unpunished, that is OK, but one innocent should not be punished” That is, we have to prove their crime “Beyond reasonable doubts”. These expert corrupts were not born yesterday. They know how to manipulate, how to destroy some key papers, enough to create reasonable doubts. So government has to make sure it has a strong case for the judge. Because if they get acquitted, we know how they will start shouting from the roof top, Vendetta…vendetta. That could be a tantamount to give a life-line to drowning Congress party.

I agree with Sree Iyer on need for twin (development + Hindutva) strategy rather than mere development. That’s about it as far as this article is concerned. Later I tend to disagree with him on the Jaitley part. Its a well known fact that a few disgruntled souls– incidentally some of them are associated with this publication as well–dislike Jaitley (there is a history of New Delhi LS seat there). These guys wouldn’t mind indulging in mud-slinging and trying to put blame at Jaitley’s doorstep. I’m not a big fan of Jaitley either but i completely detest attempts by like of Iyer to score a political point rather than making an honest attempt at dissecting and analyzing an election result

This was a campaign designed and implemented by the BJP president and the PM himself. (No body cares what Jaitly did or did not do). The credit for neutralising effects of Patidar agitation (partially) or GST implementation and the blame for not achieving the projected results both go to them. They belong to Gujrat and have run the state government till about three and a half years back. They should have known better.
The issues like Article 370 or UCC are national issues and have no bearing on the Gujrat elections. In any case those who want these issues, will never vote for Congress.
GST issues or threat from Patidars did not reflect in urban areas where BJP scored heavily. Their real problem is in Saurashtra where BJP conceded 13 seats to Congress and in rural areas where Congress got better support. May be some agrarian problems have to be tackled and Dalit votes have to be won to put up a better performance in 2019.

So called Development Agenda will at last land in money making from projects. Basic ideology has to keep always. Otherwise voters will teach lessons. Hope Gujarat gave a fitting lesson to Modi and Shah.

Congress has nurtured poor indian public by buying votes with liquor and freebies. Similarly in addition to development, BJP has to shower freebies on rural people to get the votes. Take, CB Naidu of AP, who made Hyderabad an IT hub , built infrastructure , planned for metro and a modern airport. See the result, he was thrown out and most corrupted YSR Reddy grabbed power by promising freebies. Indian society is highly fractured and Modi should have a dirty tricks department to counter dirty tricks of opposition parties and spread his team instead of putting burden on A Shaw.

Lessons & messages will be many. India is still a fragmented society thanks to various castes which still want to maintain their identities. The way forward is to quickly remove the quota / reservation system & replace it with economic status. Further the soft data on various castes has to be deleted & formatted, so that it cannot be used by politicians for putting or selecting or using it as election tool for canvassing.
Indian public are also fickle mind, see short term gains than long term gains.

Well said. Hope Modi and Shah are realizing this. Bharat cannot afford to have CONgrass at helm again.