Vision 2020
Has this been the most intelligent mandate ever by the Indian electorate? Not a particularly big fan of any party, I feel happy at the apparent logic that seems to have governed most voting patterns. Open to debate, most of the under are surmises from my limited understanding of Indian politics 1. People voted for non divisive, forward looking, development based agendas. Recrimination, slander and personality based campaigning was given the boot 2. The BJP suffered from not having a convincing clear positioning of what it stood for. A negative fallout of this defeat could be the re-emergence of Mandir based politics. India could well do without that era again 3. Every state took a hard look at who's standing and voted. There was no blinding imagery or larger than life persona effects which overtook the psyche of people. Rational voting at its best 4. It worries me that the MNS got a fair mandate in Mumbai though they never won any seat. Doesn't augur too well for the fabric of