NDA finally conquers Bihar

After the 1999 general elections Arun Jaitely of the BJP had this to say of Lalu after the huge RJD debacle-
"You can fool all the people sometimes; You can fool some people all the time; But you cannot fool all the people all the time"

This quote stuck with me for long. Arun Jaitely has been working hard ever since. Arun Jaitely is the smartest of em' all as far as BJP goes and sadly he's in minority in that party. There are some real dumb asses in BJP.
Nevertheless Jaitely and Co managed to pull up something improbable this election season in Bihar. They actually were able to route out this sick man (read Lalu). And emphatically.

Our lame duck Cabinate Secretary, oops! sorry Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had the balls to call Lalu a "Vikas Purush". just before elections. :-)

Well we know Mr. Singh, you are just warming the PM's seat for "laadla" Rahul to take over and you are a stop gap arrangement at best, till Rahul "jee" is packaged completely by Congress and Messrs TOI, NDTV et al as our next PM. But don't you Mr. Singh as an educated, "honest" man
have the minimum sense of understanding vis-a-vis Lalu's reputation?

Lalu Prasad Yadav is anything but Vikas Purush. He has often scoffed at journalists for raising the issue of vikas or development, bluntly letting them know that Vikas is not an issue at all.

A free and fair election in Bihar has atleast undone this myth that Lalu created - that of Biharis not wanting development. Hopefully the Election Commission can someday conduct a fair election in West Bengal too and destroy the myth that Bengalis are a great fan of Communism.

Coming back to Lalu. Lot of people feel that Bihar was already at its pit bottom. It couldn't have gone worse. Under Lalu it was at the bottom of most surveys conducted by India Today. Whether it was education, health, infrastructure etc. Bihar probably epitomised everything that was wrong with India. Whether castism, corruption, terrorism etc. Hence hopefully from hereon it will only be upward movement for this sad state. And Nitish Kumar, a qualified engineer, is just the right person , i feel, for this job.

The real winner of these elections has been the Judiciary who very rightly castigated the UPA government in general and Buta Singh in particular for playing mischief with the system after the last election results. That was a classic example of the amount of vulgarity and crudeness accompanying this current establishment.

Anyways. Everything happens for a reason. Had Congress and Sonia not shown so much of lust for power the people of Bihar would not have rejected them so strongly. In a way the people of Bihar have answered in the best possible manner.

The Bihar elections are likely to have an impact on the working of UPA government at the centre. Frustrated Lalu and Communists would make life more difficult for the Congress, i feel.

I was reading a piece by TVR Shenoy in rediff.com and realised one very crucial thing. Congress is a spent force in two of the most crucial states in the country today. UP and Bihar. Both together sending more than 100 MPs. If Congress is (day) dreaming of making it alone the next election i think it has its work cut out. The Sonia/Rahul/Priyanka charishma may be limited to a few pockets aftter all.

I think in a way it is sad. A weak Congress is not good for the nation. Ideally we should have a two party system like, lets say, in US or UK, with Congress representing the left and BJP representing the right. That would stabalise the nation to a very large extent. Unforntunately the Communists and the Mulayams and Lalus are quite a force and have a high nuisance value.
They can go to any extent to destroy a system. Best example being West Bengal and UP.

We can just live with hope that these elements will cease to exist someday. I know that is being too optimistic. But whats wrong with hoping.

Meanwhile some anti-nationals like Praful Bidwai have already started blaming the EC for conducting a free poll. Apparently, and this is what Mr. Bidwai feels, conducting a free and fair elections caused the so called weaker sections (read muslims) of the society to remain away from booths and hence he feels Lalu lost so massively. If you want to have some comic relief read his column on rediff.com

Most of us know by now that West Bengal elections are rigged scientifically. If that does not explain single establishment ruling that state for over three decades, nothing does. I know Bidwai wouldn't like a free poll in West Bengal as well, going by his argument above.

In the meantime its time for rejoice for all the right thinking individuals in the country. Bihar sans Lalu is good news. For Bihar and for the nation. Here's hoping that India can someday free itself of Monarchy (read Gandhi family) , passivism (read pseudo-secularism) and terrorism (read Communists).