The good, the bad and the ugly - my assessment of election result.

The people who know me very closely knows this fact very well that i am a RSS man and a firm supporter of BJP. Even i had proclaimed before many a people that NDA is going to form the government. But yes it was spectacular win for Congress. I would not say that the BJP has faltered. They lost only around 15 seats. It was Congress who gained a lot. And yes, I was sad on that entire day.I wanted to see LK Advani as PM. I also wanted to see people like Arun Shourie, Arun Jaitely, Sushma Swaraj etc as ministers.

But evrything is not so dipressing. Even after being a BJP person this election has got every thing - The good, The bad and The ugly.

1. The good: A congress led government with more than 200 seats of congress, is definitely better than a BJP led government with 140 seats of BJP.The lesser seats the leader has got, the more say is there with regional parties, and a big cheap negotiations can be seen then. This time goons like Lalu, Paswan etc. are not going to be there. Besides Congress has always been supporter of Reforms and Liberalisation. And this they dont have socialists and communists with them. So Mr. Manmohan has got free hand. I would say they won’t let this opportunity go. So best of luck.
2. The bad: The bad part of a strong Congress is that the Congress has always compromised the nation’s interest for the election purposes. In India you have elections in every six months. Congress has always framed the policy of government keeping in mind the impact of that in the next election. They don’t prepare the country for the next 15-20 years. The NDA started Highway projects at the war level, the proposal of integrating rivers was almost final, they declared India a nation with nuclear power - every thing for a better future. Whereas Congress has not done anything for the next 15 years. The loan waiver of 75000 crore has nothing to do with future, rather had it been invested in increasing productivity it could have been a futuristic decision. Even the pay hike of around 40% was not a futuristic decision. Every thing was to woo the electorate. So i would love to see Congress making India powerful enough to compete with China. (Why we should be competing with china, i will write in my next blog.)
3. The ugly: As is unilaterally appreciated by all the national media, that Congress has won the election due to the polarisation of Muslim votes in his favour, I am of the view that the next 5 years Afzal and Kasab are not going to be hung. Congress will show it’s loyalty to the Muslims and will go soft on Muslim extremism and terrorism.

You people may think that i still talk in BJP language, but that’s my view you be disagreed. Economically we Will do well with government.