The Ghost of Election Alliances Past
BY Basu Ka Bakwas
So after much cold, fog, inflated prices the Delhites are at
least saved from the vagaries of a presidential rule followed by another round
of elections. Surely no one will like to be bogged down by another round of constant campaigning
through loud speakers, rallies and door to door .This time around it would have
been In the damp highly opaque December ,January weather. No human should be
exposed to such hardship least of all our elected representatives what of the fact
that a fractured mandate is also a mandate. It means that not enough are convinced,
but hey policy paralysis so mundane a disease among the elected it is still
better than pneumonia. Hence our broom wielding messiah is kissing and making
up and getting crowned with the very Entity opposition of which got him the votes.
We are all expected to suffer selective amnesia and play along for the getter
good.
Mandate fractured or whatever still better than re-elections
perhaps sans the candidates who have already lost. Fractured Mandates the base ingredient
of rather mutually antagonistic elements coming together with or without
conditions inside or outside support alliances. In spite of all the hullo bullo
of a new age democracy isn’t this a déjà vu moment. Feels like the late 90s a motley
group of regional parties ride a strong anti congress wave and form govt at the
centre with the same Congresses providing outside support. Sounds familiar no perhaps
we could have asked the 12th Prime Minister of India of the United
Front Govt Mr. I K Gujral sadly he is no longer there. Oh now now all is fair
in love and fight against communal forces even allying with corrupt forces.
“King of shard and
patches” as against that of a Leader of the masses .All the hype about Shiela
been trounced by a underdog effectively shadowed the petty detail that AAP won
28 out of seventy seats. The rest roughly sixty percent of Delhites thought that
the Jharoo will brush as much as a certain lantern brought light in a place
called Bihar. There was a referendum via electronic social media poor lefties
they depended on the old method of Rallies, meetings conventions before deciding to
prop congress at the centre you can forgive them there was no internet then.
Least but not the last we must leave an honorable mention of
every past messiahs who were successful I
trouncing congress from their local strongholds the lefties In West Bengal
,Kerala the Yadas of Bihar and UP.Our leader just joined their august or now
probably autumn company. They too had conditions to support when just short of the
mark at their time they were the new wave In democracy .We don’t see them so
invincible now compared to the nineties aah the people grew dissilusioised.To
early to say or is it.
