These results have been remarkable in many regards. First and foremost, most politically significant aspect of all, we must congratulate the electorate for cleansing the system effectively. Almost all the Mafia/goonda element has been wiped clean by the voters in this election –

Atique Ahmad(Apna Dal)from Phoolpur,

Mukhtar Ansari(BSP) from Varansi,

Afzal Ansari (SP)from Ghazipur,

Mitrasen(BSP) from Faizabad,

D.P.Yadav(BSP) from Badaun,

Arun Kumar Shukla(Anna-BSP)from Unnao.

Akshay Pratap Sigh(Gopal Ji-sp)from Pratapgarh also lost .

Congress was saved from embarrassment as Ranjeeta Ranjan(Wife of Pappu Yadav)and Shanti Priya(Mother of Pappu Yadav) contesting from Supaul and Purniya -with full congress support- respectively  both lost and along with Sadhu Yadav.Hena Shaheb(W/o Shahbuddin)contesting on RJD ticket also lost from Sewan.

Lessons (if they are willing to learn)-

A.We do not want criminals in the parliament. We have cleansed the system once ,keep it clean now by not giving them tickets in future.

B. Ms. Mayawati do not take us for fools, there is no way that you can get away with enrolling all the big time criminals for parliamentary elections. How ignorant can a person try to be, telling that BSP could not get the expected number of seats  because people were scared that BSP will later start negotiating with BJP-bring something more audacious ,anybody. Truth is staring in your eyes, you are not willing to look at it and expecting everybody else to close their eyes also.

C.If a systematic effort is made to make people understand ,they do understand. All the Corporate and Media houses are to be congratulated for their all out efforts to keep the system clean. What is most encouraging is that such efforts were made for the first time, were spontaneous, motivated by a sincere desire to clean the system and they proved to be so effective.

II.Black-mailers/Brokers/Arm-twisters kindly excuse

How many King Makers/Prime-ministers in waiting had to eat their words-Lalu Prasad and Ramvilas Paswan duo,Mayawati,Sharad Pawar,Mulayam Singh-Amar Singh Duo,Jayalalitha,Prakash Karat in particular and Left parties in general. These are people /parties with loudest ambitions and most unveiled threats and demands. People of this country have had enough of them. I found the fate of RJD/LJP in Bihar funniest along with SP in UP. Congress did the right thing by calling their bluff-when your closest allies suddenly leave you in the lurch and you have to slug it out all alone, do  it with all the heart and there is an old saying(as Lalu,Paswan and Mulayam must have learnt the hard way)-Luck favours the brave. People have started understanding that these are all small time leaders with truncated visions ,doing politics of/for one particular caste or region without the capacity to realize the ill-effects of what they are doing, how much fragmented the society is becoming due to all their social-engineering or Madndal- Kamandal experiments and most importantly they do not have any ideology or vision at all except for a fierce desire to keep clinging to the seat of power for making as much money as they can. Thank god their next generations are much better and educated and seem to understand that politics is about the nation(As In Bharat that is India) and not about their own clan,region,language and so forth….

III.GOOD GOVERNENCE HAS FINALLY STARTED PAYING IN OUR COUNTRY ALSO

Chief ministers of Delhi,MP,Andhra Pradesh,Gujrat,Chhattisgarh and most notably Bihar and Orrissa have reaped rich harvest for all their good works and also some of the policies at the central level have paid handsomely for Congress overall(Agricultural Loan Waiver Scheme and NREGA in particular and being able to contain free fall of economy in general).I hope one day they will all learn that governance only can lead them to the seat of power, even more importantly, people will learn to vote on the basis of policies and governance only keeping aside the usual divisive issues that are created to confuse and befool them.

IV.Do not underestimate the power of one

1. All the big ,grown up leaders, political stalwarts in their own eyes ,who were laughing openly at Rahul Gandhi or watching him with bemused expressions and calling him Kal Ka Chhokra, must understand that if your conscience is clean, you can talk to your audience maintaining eye contact all the time(i.e. you do not have any guilt inside),you have faith in what you are doing, you do not have any intentions of grabbing power by hook or crook rather you are willing to refuse what may be duly yours, then illiterate population of this country has a uncanny ability to somehow judge it all. Emergence of Rahul Gandhi is a remarkable phenomenon, it is very clear that he is a political novice, but at the same time and even more forcefully are conveyed his intentions and his basic thought process, the bondage with the audience is instant and spontaneous they seem to understand that this young man is speaking from the core of his heart for their sake and has come to   them with an open mind and clear vision. They could see that his vision is not clouded by Religion,  caste, language or political or financial gains and they responded in the only way they could have responded (By casting their votes in his favour).This was a natural chemistry between a straight forward person full of youthful energy and a population fed up with convoluted politicians. Almost similar traits were displayed by Priyanka during her campaigns.

V. DO NOT MAKE THE MISTAKE OF CALLING  A SOFT SPOKEN AND DECENT PERSON A WEAK PERSON

I have a feeling that calling Manmohan Singh a weak Prime minister might not have gone well with any soft spoken ,well behaved ,decent person. How can you call him weak-He managed to run his government without any major hiccups DESPITE Left support for full tenure, he did not release any terrorists in response to attack on Mumbai, he went ahead with Indo-Ameriacn nuclear deal despite severe arm twisting by Left, he managed the economic crisis well without any major tangible effects till date. Yet, suddenly everybody from BJP to his own allies start calling him weak. Despite their ideologies, many well meaning persons will vote in favour of congress just to prove his detractors wrong.

So, in my opinion this is clear verdict in favour of a stable Congress government, expunging the criminals, excluding any scope of arm-twisting and was influenced by sound judgement and a few good decisions of the Mamohan Singh Government with remarable contribution from sensible politicking of Gandhi Family and a clean image of Manmohan singh. At the same time,good governance at state level was also rewarded  in general and people have given a vedict more complex and mature than reasonably expected.

Many cheers to this verdict.

Regards,

Vikasendu.

P.S.-These elections are important for another reason also, cutting across all the party lines, tickets were given to many young politicians in these elections and a very healthy percentage of young MPs will be visible in the Parliament this time-there must be more than a hundred MPs who are 45 years or less in age (87 already and I am still counting)most notable among these being Rahul Gabdhi,Varun Gandhi,Jyortiaditya Sindia,Priya Dutta,Akhilesh Yadav,Jayant Singh,Milind Deora,Supriya Sule,P.Venugopal,Kumar P.,Dayanidhi Maran,Sarika Singh(Only 29 years),Kunwar Jitin Prasad,Dhanajay Singh,Sanjay Nirupam,Ajay Makan,Sandeep Dikshit,Ravneet Singh,Dev Ji Patel,Sachin Pilot,Jitendra Singh,Meenakshi Natrajan,Shruti Chaudhary,Ashok Kumar,Deepender Singh,Naveen Jindal,Ashok Tanwar etc..etc….The list is really a long and impressive one. If somehow they are given a chance to form and run the government cutting across party lines………………IF ONLY……………..

But, then what are they supposed to be ashamed of-Hamam mein sabhi nange hain.Every political party has her own shares of musclemen/women/hardcore criminals being given tickets for legislative assemblies and parliament. If people like Shahabuddin,Ateeq Ahmad,Mukhtar Ansari,Krishnanad Rai(Late),Pappu Yadav,Brij Bhushan Saran Singh etc ,etc…… are able to attend assemblies/parliament, then we do not need ISI supported terrorists to attack our parliament ,our political parties are doing their job, and much more effectively. If you want to destroy a country, break the will to fight first. What moral authority can an  administrator/police officer has after saluting and protecting the likes of such. Not being able to stop the entry of criminals in the political system has been a big failure of the legislature and judiciary and as more and more criminals with more and more heinous crimes keep on entering assemblies and parliament, we will all have to sit, take stock of the situation and take some concrete steps before goons take over the system fully.

Also,it is very convenient to forever shift the blame for the grim scenario, so called Intellectuals are also to be equally blamed. Most of the electronic media has gone insane in their quest for ever elusive TRPs.If they had any serious regard for the cleansing of political system, they should have devoted their prime time slots to election related issues(mind you not gossip-real issues) instead of sensational Jyotish related/crime file/superstitious trash that has become routine for almost all the news channels .Anybody and everybody is a celebrity, some channels keep on interviewing these Media made celebrities and showing programmes related to them for many days continuously and what is more appalling is that these interviews are not conducted by some obscure third grade journalist but the same high profile political editors who have the calibre of asking most incisive questions and taking on most obnoxious politicos. I’m really at a loss to understand how they mentally prepare themselves to do these sleazy shows, I mean it is really pitiable to see a top notch political analyst/editor interview a lowest notch Item girl(??who coined this term)!But, I think that money(read as TRPs)take precedence over all and everyone and our poor intellectuals do understand this and one after another they all jump into the fray-one interviewing, another flexing his muscles in a court(Adalat).God have some mercy on them and let them realize that good quality humanitarian stories might also gain same TRP(and ,what the hell, had they joined Journalism for increasing TRPs of some news channel !).

As I sit and dissect dispassionately, I find that there are many things which we have helped our political parties systemize by not opposing, neglecting discussion and not giving proper thorough coverage to issues related to these-First and foremost issue of accountability is   “Education”.

The fact that 61 years after Independence, we still have to provide reservations to a vast majority of our population itself shows  the utter neglect of  education system for the lowest strata of society. No political party could provide /cared to develop a system to provide quality education to the children from lowest socio-economic background. Instead of asking “Why reservation even after so many years?”, we helped them systemize caste based reservations fragmenting the society-politicos got everyone  busy in discussing how much reservation and to whom and were thus successful in deflecting the fundamental question-“WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STATE OF AFFAIRS WHERE WE STILL HAVE TO PROVIDE RESERVATIONS AFTER SO AMNY YEARS”. Then we helped them again by voting on caste lines because they helped us get reservations. If a group is really backward then the real issue can never be who helped get this group Reservation, the issue should be who tried for their overall upliftment by initiating the process of opening good schools with dedicated teachers, better job opportunities in the pockets of this particular group (which incidentally does not mean big factories only; good vocational training, target based coaching institutes whose teachers do not treat these as a way of earning some extra money but are passionate about their jobs, organising dedicated and honest self help groups are the best ways of increasing job opportunities ),providing health care facilities ,education about sanitation and most of all, a feeling of being self-sufficient .

What happens is exactly the reverse, there are no schools of any quality, if they exist  teachers are totally demotivated, absenteeism is rampant-more amongst teachers than students-drop-out rates are astronomical, nobody seems to care about job opportunities; instead a myth is propagated that  Reservation is  only cure for all the problems never mentioning the fact that in Toady’s India, a very minuscule proportion of jobs is in the government sector and covered by reservations and Education is the only key to upliftment.Baseline is –Parties are not doing any good to anybody by promoting reservations, ground situation is just  opposite and indicative of failure of our political system, demanding and providing reservations has nothing to do with upliftment of anybody ,political parties have been using this ploy for keeping their vote banks consolidated by dividing the larger society and people should demand a system/society where they are uplifted to a level which makes reservations meaningless by bringing them educationally at par with so called forward classes.

How is all of this possible!

 Some suggestions-

1.Start from the scratch-Open residential schools starting from class 1 to class 12 with full state sponsorship-books,dress,lodging,food, fares for occasional home visits -everything.

2.Find dedicated teachers, people who enjoy teaching and take pride in the outcome.

3.Give these teachers at least double of what their counterparts get –for staying in the campus and for performing.

4.Develop a system of incentives and disincentives –both for the teachers and students.

5.Plan well in advance so that all types of provisions are available well before time-everything books,stationary,dresses,money for food, repairs ,whitewash,phonebill,maintainance  of the building(this is just a small list, what I mean to say is provisions for everything ,smallest to largest should be planned well in advance)

6.Fix responsibilities for everything.

7.Take these responsibilities seriously-any delay poor performance on any front should be taken seriously with in-house and if needed external audit of every single deficiency in service.

8.Do not allow people from creamy layer in these institutes.

9.Develop a mechanism sans beaurocratic delay and if things are delayed due to unnecessary nitpicking by beaurocracy,take them also to task.

10.Make these institutions totally free of political intervention of any kind-from local village/town level politics for admissions to higher level politics(say when services of a teacher are terminated after continuous poor performance).

11.Keep thresholds low-Do not tolerate any nonsense, any stupid nonsense for delayed procurement/delivery of provisions or excuses for poor performance.

12.Demand results-Chalk out clear objectives and demand to see the same achieved.

13.Audit the performance regularly and severely.

More I think more I believe that these are the only solution to Educational upliftment of the backward classes which will eventually lead to their overall upliftment.After all what is the state providing by reserving seats for these classes –marking a certain percentage of seats in government higher education institutes, government jobs which are to be filled by SC/ST/OBC candidates whatever their performance might be. Why not try and elevate performance to a level where they corner not only their reserved share of seats but on the basis of their merit only , corner a much larger chunk. This will be real upliftment ,nobody can grudge it,people from all walks ,all sections of society will support it and might actually participate if things are run in such a way that some confidence in governments’ good intentions and capacity to actually move things in the right direction is restored.

There are many more issues like minimum Job security,health,childcare,right of access to clean water, proper basic sanitation etc..,etc….I will try to cover them one by one.

Coming back to the original topic, Dear Mr.Politico don’t get disturbed by honest ,though off the mark admission of a young leader ,he is only stating the obvious. Instead feel ashamed for systemising almost everything rotten-Systemising Criminals(Not the ones with political cases, hardcore criminals –people having case of murders ,attempted murders,rapes,dacoity,damage to national property,people who are  in the  most wanted list of their local police stations for heinous crimes) in the assemblies/parliament(Even the upper house), Systemising dividing the society in the name of caste/religion, Systemising giving reservations in place of education, Systemising getting elected with one political party/ideology and supporting/taking support of radically opposite political party, Systemising neglecting the voter or worse still showing scant respect for public sensibilities, Systemising  political clowns as political visionaries, Systemising ministers with criminal records in the Union cabinet, Systemising Halla Bol(remember Guest House incident at Lucknow).This list is also endless and everyday  shameless chameleons called political leaders keep on enlarging it making the previous offence look many times smaller to the latest insult .I have no doubt that if Dawood Ibrahim comes back to India and somehow becomes our home minister(Do not drop your jaw, it is only a matter of one political party initiating the process of offering him a ticket, at least ten will follow immediately),he will not be able to cause so much harm as these thick skinned, shameless creatures can do by their divisive, all polluting politics.

So much for now, rest in a week or so.

Vikasendu.

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