GENERAL ELECTIONS 2014
Clear mandate to the BJP is a warning to Narendra Modi.
Perform or perish after 5 years. Shape in or be thrown out.
Yes, that is the clear writing on the wall.
If it is the matter of jubilation for the BJP, it is also a
healing sign from the Indian electorate as well, that it is taking well
informed decisions beyond the worn-out lines of caste, community and
regionalism.
And this healing sign is what the BJP needs to keep in
mind while governing the country for the next 5 years.
The clear mandate overwriting the proponents of the day of
the coalition politics in India says Indians are willing to give a decisive
mandate so as to bypass the hurdles that a coalition alliance presents, as we
have seen in the last two decades of the coalition politics at the Union level
in India, to take India back on the path of high growth that it looked set to
be on when the last decade began.
The youth forming the decisive chunk of the Indian
electorate that really votes has voted Narendra Modi and the BJP in.
The burgeoning middle class that had grown apathetic because
of its neglect during the run of the politics of different votebanks where it
did not figure in the scheme of the things has voted Narendra Modi and the BJP
in.
And if the BJP has the clear majority today, it is because
these segments voted for Narendra Modi, for his development track record.
And these voting segments act largely independent of the
caste and community considerations.
They need development and in electing their
representatives, they decide based on the prospects of development only. These
segments are the demanding class of voters who expect the scenario to change
and are ready to experiment.
They don’t hesitate in taking swift decisions when they
see their decisions not honoured. They don’t err in judging the history and the
context of political legacy as a burden when it stops delivering.
We saw it beautifully in case of the Aam Aadmi Party’s
unexpected surge in Delhi and the party’s immediate fall in the Lok Sabha
elections when it betrayed the mandate of the people, the people who were not
from some particular votebanks and who had voted Arvind Kejriwal in, the people
who were from every caste and community, including the aspiring and demanding
youth of the nation.
Narendra Modi and the BJP need to read this writing on the
wall regularly if Mr. Modi is serious about coming back to power in 2019.
