Vikas wrote: ↑Mon Dec 17, 2018 2:45 pm
If Bhagwan Ram himself was ruling Bharat and Aurangzeb was in the opposition party, Zeb may still would have won few seats, nay maybe a state or two. That is the tyranny of right caste and alliances combination that sometimes clicks like it did for MSY and Lalu for so many years.
In a way it is good that congress has swept the 3 states. makes Rahul G a prime candidate for PM position in 2019. It will be hard for him to hide and not project himself as PM contender.
Agreed. There will always be some people who do not like Lord of The Rings
And yes, RaGa as PM choice for 2019 will actually swing votes to Modi, at least that is what I believe.
By the way, What has middle class Hindus done to deserve this much of scorn and bile by one and all. You guys must be uber rich or from BPL families. Middle class is the new Brahmins of BGR, to be blamed for every ill in the society and BJP's loss.
Poor sell their votes for Daaru ka bottle and a Saree, minorities don't like BJP, Rich do not vote and could not care less while evil middle class is completely against BJP due to DeMo and GST and lack of avenues to indulge in corruption,
then who the Fcuk voted for BJP and got them closer to half way mark in recent elections ??
I come from a middle-class family myself, and I understand their ethos very well. Now I am 'living the life' in the US perhaps, but my roots have always been middle-class. And they are not to be blamed for the election results, they are the ones that always bear the brunt of any changes in societal laws - be it taxation or otherwise. However, there are subsections within the middle-class who have been hit hard depending upon what their source of income is. As I said, members of my own family in India have been hurt. Strangely though, most of them (the ones I talk to) are still Modi supporters although some are now committed AAP followers.
Hindus from the middle-class in particular (read non SC/ST) have always been core BJP (Jan Sangh in the past) supporters . They continue to be so, but there is always attrition due to reasons mentioned earlier.
Once again, Good governance can not be replaced with any magical promise else Congress would have swept Gujrat and KA too.
Agree again. However, the only time under the Congress that we have had really good and impartial governance was under LBS and then PVNR. IG for a while was good especially in matters of national security, but she was too much of a dynast and self-serving, paying the ultimate price for it, sadly.
Finally, we should remember that except for CG, the Congress has nowhere else managed to get a landslide victory, so it should also be a lesson that bribes and partisan politics can only get you so far.