Narendra Modi and The Gujarat Surprise

So Modi won. Sonia, Rahul, the Congress, the Left, BSP, and other minor parties collectively lost. And now the great Indian Leftist Hyprocrisy machine has embarked on its "fact finding" mission. What mission you ask? The mission is to fabricate a reason that allows the Left to continue their pretense of a moral high ground while denying the reality of the people's mandate.

Whether one agrees with everything Modi does or not, it seems like a general consensus is forming amongst the educated majority that the Congress and the Left does not have the nation's interest at heart. The Left, to repeat the old story - so old that no one repeats it any more, is owned by the Chinese. Scoundrels such as Sitaram Yechury continue to exert an influence on the Indian polity that would not be tolerated anywhere else. Especially so given that the jokers in the Politburo cannot even win an election on their own. In fact, it is this isolation from the reality of everyday politics that allows them to continue to plight their ideological troth to the now discredited ideas of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Mao.

The Congress, ah, what can one say about the great mythical Party. Once it was all things to all people. But Indira destroyed the federalism of the Congress Party and with it its ability to maintain two levels of relationship with the Indian voter - the local and the national. As she promoted Jyoti Basu in the West Bengal and cut down Kamaraj in Tamil Nadu, she sowed the seeds of today's Congress. A party that still aspires to maintaining its tenuous claim on being the party of "Freedom Fighters" is now led and controlled mostly by Sonia (who, by the way, according to many reports still holds an Italian passport) and Rahul (ditto). Look at their home page (www.aicc.org.in). The introductory page seems almost apologetic about India - the Congress is beating back the Communal cesspool that India threatens to become. The dark joke of course is that it is the Congress and the Communist Party that continue to pose the greatest Communal threat of all. With the reprehensible class and caste-based politics, the two seek to divide and rule.

Despite his various shortcomings and flaws, Modi has exposed one critical weakness in the Congress/Left combine. They are incapable of effective governance because their decisions are mortgaged to far too many stakeholders with conflicting demands. Modi, on the other hand, has provided effective governance, superb social services infrastructure, and an action-oriented administration. When people can see the results, it is hard for the Congress to deny them. Imagine this - in the rural areas in the recent state elections, the Congress was reduced to making claims such "Modi has failed to provide electricity for 24 hours a day" while simultaneously admitting to journos (ah, yet another bane of modern India) that he only manages to provide it for "22 hours." And that is a failure!! In India! Does the Congress even want to get into that kind of match?