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The triumph and the glory

There are moments in the life of nations that are harbingers of deep changes. The Congress has achieved what even so many of its friends thought was unthinkable: not just a return to power, but a return with such aplomb. No amount of psephological quibbling can take away from this achievement. ....Read more

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All too familiar observationsBy: Ramana Murthy | Thursday , 21 May '09 15:34:11 PM Reply | Forward It seems customary to make such observations after every election. Is the average Indian so mature that he makes a conscious decision to put a stable government in place? To keep the small, bickering regional parties out? To reward good performance?Does the average Indian voter know what is good performance in the first place? If he does, why was the NDA not returned to power in 2004 when the economy showed record growth?And the sensex predictably zooms after every election!

Dramatisation of victory without reaching even majorityBy: shiney | Thursday , 21 May '09 14:57:27 PM Reply | Forward Are you promising to all indians that everything will be set right within the next 5 years and India becomes a fully developed country without illiteracy, starvation, crime, terrorism etc.,Pls be analytical in your approach, for a moment if you were to think Trinamool was with NDA and left and congress fought WB and Kerela elections separately........do u think UPA would have still had the same seats it now has? So would Congress have opted for an alliance with Trinamool, if left hadnt dumped it mid way. Now the results were an output of all these oppurtunistic political alliances, and you guys are asking us to believe that it was a grand political strategy by Rahul. What is his constribution to Indian society apart from his family name? Lets see what columnists like you have to say a year or even 6months down the line. One more thing like 26/11 all of you will be writing same old sob stories like earlier.

Too early to make any sweeping statementsBy: Shekhar | Tuesday , 19 May '09 18:28:03 PM Reply | Forward Aren't all commentators (including yourself) too quick to make sweeping statements? The Indian electorate is wise, it punishes the opportunisitic, etc haven't we heard all this after virtually every election? Nothing much will change just wait 6 months down the line- we will have the same massive corruption, the same cynical politics regarding important national issues like disinvestment, labour reforms. We will be dragging our feet on terrorism, we cannot displease a significant portion of our minority population can we? And yes, the cries for reservations for some other alleged disadvantaged groups will only grow louder.

Too much generalizationBy: Pathik | Monday , 18 May '09 10:49:17 AM Reply | Forward I live in Gujarat and I don't agree that Rahul Gandhi magic worked in Gujarat. There was good analysis of results in Gujarat in yesterday's local newspapers. BJP did not gain much in Gujarat because of BSP,SP,MJP - a breakaway section of BJP - etc playing the spoiler. The margins have been thin. It is really naive to say that Rahul Gandhi has swept in Gujarat or the country. There was anti-incumbency against the Left in Kerala and WB, and Left's only opponent in those states was UPA. So it is more like a vote againts Left, which is also a very good sign.