The results of the Karnataka assembly elections, the only BJP-ruled south Indian state, have rekindled the Congress party’s hope to come back to power in the scheduled 2014 general elections. Many political analysts will call the results as expected and term them as the end result of five-year tenure of chaos and corruption. The rolling of the dice will go on for some more time before we find out who will get the crown.
The results of the Karnataka state election will have their repercussion at the national level also, especially about Narendra Modi’s charisma. Karnataka election proves the points of the pundits that Modi’s charm and appeal is only limited to his state and outside the state he suffers a personality crisis.
The TV experts and the political analysts may see “corruption” of the BJP government as the main reason for its defeat, but my question is whether the Congress is less corrupt?
The image of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government has take a severe battering after a number of scams came to light in recent years. Therefore, if the corruption was the sole poll issue for the voters in Karnataka, then how come the Congress party emerged as the leading party in the state?
This is the result of the Indian voter’s dilemma of selecting the lesser evil from the two devils. Seven years of political wilderness in the state kept the Congress party away from the corruption and made it a lesser evil. But 10 years of the UPA rule at the center with scores of scams may give the BJP a change of role at the center for being a lesser evil. — A.S. Ansar, Shuqaiq, Jazan
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