If it happens so as the exit
polls project – on December 8, 2013 - if Sheila Dikhsit, the three-term and the
incumbent chief minister of Delhi loses her assembly constituency, New Delhi,
to the debutant politician Arvind Kejriwal – it is going to be the biggest
scoop of the 2013 assembly polls and it comes with the five-states polls held
in this November-December.
If we go by the exit-poll
projections this evening after Delhi ,
the last state election of the five-state assembly polls was held today, then we
can assume so.
And if it happens so, it will be
the biggest political news scoop on elections this year after the long corridor
of political developments that preceded Narendra Modi’s official coronation as the
BJP’s prime-ministerial candidate.
It will alter many equations. But
what would be the most significant takeaways from this??
Though the country needed AAP
(Aam Aadmit Party) to win the Delhi polls in order to send the message to the
political class that the public was looking for change, something that
ultimately could not happen as the party came out third, it did, still make for
the case (if it happened so).
If Arvind Kejriwal succeeds in
winning the New Delhi
assembly constituency from Sheila Dikshit, it will still be symbolically potent
enough to tell the political class that it is the time to change.
If a powerful chief minister who
claims to bring development to the national capital of India , (and indeed she has done
work here in the last 15 years), loses to an entrant politician, it should be a
message bold enough to warn the existing league of political babudom.
Additionally, it will change many other
things, getting visibly visible as soon as the trends become clear on December 8.
It will alter the locus, the
focus, the course, the discourse - it will alter all – in spaces - in print - on
airwaves - in minds - on December 8 – and will continue further on to remain a
lingering point for quite sometime – as the big political fight is right here –
the grand theatre of the political slugfest of the General Elections of India that are to be held April-May next year.
©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/
