One Election Many Results
The present elections are giving way to many changes. The implications are far reaching.
Hyderabad: The general elections 2014 have far reaching impact on the Indian polity. With the overwhelming majority obtained by the BJP and NDA, the alliance is in a commanding position. The worse ever performance of congress and other parties is also leading to different conclusions.
The performance of JD U government in Bihar with Nitish Kumar as CM has been minimal. The party that faced this election without any alliance restricted itself to just 2 MP seats. In 2009 the party had alliance with BJP and got 19 out of total 42 MP seats. With the BJP projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate, JD U got annoyed and split the 17 years alliance with BJP.
In the current Modi wave, the performance of JD (U) invited criticism from Bihar unit of Bihar. As a face saving measure, Nitish Kumar offered resignation. He also confirmed that he being incharge of total election campaign is taking total responsibility for the debacle performance of the party in the elections and hence is resigning from the CM post of Bihar state.
The latest twist in this episode is that the outgoing Bihar CM did not ask for dissolution of assembly and the party is meeting to elect new leader to act as the CM for the state where the next assembly elections are due in November 2015.
Similar situation is coming up in Haryana. Here the ruling congress has been limited to just 1 out of 10 leaving the balance to NDA (BJP 7 & INLD 2 seats). In this state too, the corrupt congress government is being asked to resign in view of the recent minimal performance.
The BJP governments in states like MP, Rajasthan, CG, Goa are safe for the time being. The congress government in Karnataka is also safe because of better performance from congress side. Incidentally Karnataka gave largest number of MPs to congress (9 out of total 47 won by congress).
Governments of other parties like Mamata Banerjee (West Bengal), Jayalalithaa (Tamil Nadu) & Naveen Patnaik (Orissa) are also safe because of their performance in the present elections.
Under the given circumstances, it is a matter of discussion whether such demand (for resignation of poor performance governments) is genuine. It is in view of the fact that the present elections are an exception where Modi wave is seen throughout the country. On the other hand, the governments have been elected by those people of those respective states based on the circumstances prevailing at the time of those assembly elections.
