GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014
Modi says hang me if found guilty in Gujarat
riots. P Chidambaram says Modi is a compulsive lawyer and an encounter CM.
Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, both are ‘comparatively’ readily and
easily available for one-on-one interviews these days. We should expect to see
good enough count before the polls are over, something that could clear the
backlog.
On the poll theatrics and campaigning atmospherics, it is an all out
verbal war between Narendra Modi and the Gandhi family taking the Congress Vs
BJP bitterness to a higher acerbic level.
Meanwhile, the other mouths continue to dangle and dazzle, from nowhere
to everywhere, from saying something that counts for nothing to saying
something everything bad in the manual of the model code of conduct (MCC).
And with the 5th phase of the of General Elections to elect
the Lok Sabha, the lower House of the Indian Parliament, over, the scramble is
now to become even more visible and audible to the voters, as the remaining four
phases account for more than half of the 543 Lok Sabha members to be elected
through these elections. With the 5th phase over, the fate of 232
Lok Sabha constituencies are sealed in the electronic voting machines.
Then, there are the opinion polls, to add to the ambience, to make it
even more colourful and vibrant.
And the way the recent opinion polls (in fact almost every subsequent
one) have added to the earlier projected tallies of the BJP led NDA sending the
opposition coalition alliance to even greener territories and one major opinion
poll has given the alliance a clear majority just before the 5th
phase of the polls, is highly catalytic to precipitate the desperation in
Congress and other political outfits to a more active level of expression.
The lubrication due to this catalytic effect is bound to generate even
more heat that, in turn, will decorate the words being used in the verbal war even
more lavishly.
And to outdo the competition, the BJP and the other NDA parties will do
all, with an even more energised outlook thanks to the ‘clear majority’
projection potion.
After all, this has been one of the major traits of Indian democracy,
especially in the last two decades, election after election, gaining new insights and scaling new heights with every election held.