A glance at the election result

A glance at the election result

By Manohar Manoj

The result of five state legislative elections have galvanize the discourse of Indian politics in a big way

First the consistent third term winning of chief ministers of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh shows the significance of personalities of Shivraj Chauhan and Raman Singh, how they delivered in their respective states. Particularly I am very much impressed with Shivraj Chauhan, who is such a so humble, down to earth person who is always pro active for his state’s cause and it’s concern, that is why he got consistent third term win in his state. The hard fought victory of Raman Singh in Chattisgarh shows, his game changer PDS scheme was actually not a populist scheme rather was symbolism of his sensitivity towards the tribal poor of the state, otherwise Congress party could have allure people of Chhattisgarh by announcing 1/ kg rice to poor.

The victory of BJP in Rajasthan is unbelievable, one who talks about Modi wave; it was in fact visible in Rajsthan which brought a record BJP victory in Rajsthan.

Now we come on the Delhi, the benefit of anti congress wave in Delhi which must have gone in the hands of main opposition party BJP, it was grabbed by newly entrant party AAP.  The late announcement of leadership in Delhi BJP and persistent corruption in BJP led MCD, enabled AAP to emerge in a big way and the result came in form of hung assembly in Delhi.

But the victory of AAP has definitely paved the way for neo polity in the country, a new trend of polity. This party has given new dreams to those who can never get political opportunity from party like congress and BJP. But one who says the emergence of AAP would be guarantee of corruption free country, they are living in fool’s paradise and dreaming in day. Change of individuals or even party never brings change in the system. We need change in the system, through multiple reforms and constitutional remedies. We need series of political reform, banning all kind of identity politics and populist economic announcements. After all AAP was also involved in donation race. It also made communal appeal to the minority voters and made populist announcement at the cost of public exchequer. It is also true that if they have had not done, they do not have such numbers of seats and we were not compelled to discuss about their huge success.

But , mind it what happened to AAP, it has not happened first time. In 1982, NT Rama Rao came in Andhra politics in a dramatic manner, in 1985 AGP also emerged out of  it’s agitation in Asam and became ruling party of the state, Janta party emerged in 1977 but these all events were reversed very soon.  It is not the AAP leader, but in all party and political ideology, people start their career in very high note, but latter on they just joined the system. Because system is same and everything is correlated with each other.

But if AAP have had done a strong ideological churning and have had made broad blueprint of an alternative system of the country, before joining the electoral politics, they would have a much better political initiative. Otherwise we can not claim to be honest after living in a black house. We need to create a system, where nobody can get stimulus of becoming greedy and immoral. System will compel them to be moral and honest.

Our country earnestly  need 2 dozen political and administrative reform. Country has witnessed very good thing like new economic policy, RTI, application of IT and now it need multiple reform to effectively curb all kind of corruption. Excuse me Lokpal is not going to curb corruption, in the same way RTI could not. We need comprehensive and holistic approach to curb corruption.