Lok Satta for GHMC polls – Offstumped Endorsement

With the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, GHMC set to go for polls, it is with great disappointment Offstumped is noting the utterly imaginative agenda the BJP has proposed.

By raking up issues that are not even remotely of any consequence to Urban Local Governance in Hyderabad and regurgitating a laundry list on entitlement programs the BJP in Hyderabad tragically has demonstrated an utter lack of understanding of what an agenda for Urban Local Governance ought to focus on.

Tragic because the same BJP in Bangalore has come up with a promising vision with the ABIDE initiative under the leadership of Anantha Kumar and Rajeev Chandrashekhar.

On this tragic note, Offstumped has decided to endorse the Lok Satta Party for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation polls.

It is noteworthy that the Lok Satta Party echoes some of the ABIDE thinking on making the Ward the central focus of local governance.

For those wanting to learn more on the agenda proposed by Lok Satta for the GHMC polls more can be found on their website.

More in the media on the same in this story on Ward Level Agenda and this one on spending 10% budget at the discretion of Ward level committees.

Offstumped looks forward to more debate on this proposed agenda for the GHMC polls in the days to come.

Some Twitter accounts tracking Lok Satta

@LokSattaSupporter

@MarutiRaghuveer

 

Filed under: ABIDE Bangalore, DesiPundit, India Elections 2009, Local Governance, Shveta Chhatra

Maharashtra Results – End of the Road for BJP avatar

With Maharashtra assembly election results trending towards a Cong-NCP lead over Shiv-Sena BJP by a margin of around 30 seats it is safe to say that the BJP is headed for the dog-house in Maharashtra.

Barring any post poll horse trading which seems quite unlikely to do much to its status even if the situation were to manifest, the ramifications of the dismal electoral outcome are bound to have a ripple effect in the national party.

That some in the BJP were projecting Nitin Gadkari as a contender for the top BJP job irrespective of the outcome in Maharashtra is a reflection on the bankruptcy of imagination in the party and also a reflection of the grave inertia within the party to think boldy to embrace change.

More analysis and rationalizations will follow on this debacle once the final electoral outcome is clear. Much will be said of the Raj Thackeray factor and every other conspiratorial angle will be analyzed threadbare.

The bottomline however, as Offstumped had said before, is that the BJP is trapped in its rhetoric and legacy of the past while its Delhi based non-leaders are trapped in a Semi-finals mindset.

In the resulting impasse all decision making is reduced factional intrigue and myopic compromises stripping the Party of what little sheen was left of its claim to be the Party with a difference.

Irrespective of whether Narendra Modi is called upon to embrace the leadership of the BJP now or two years from now, we are staring at the end of the road for the BJP to emerge as a national alternative to the Congress.

This is not to say the BJP will not be a viable player in some states where it continues to fill the non-Congress political space.

However barring unprecedented acts of nature and god it is hard to see the BJP breaking new ground to sustain a bipolar polity at the National level.

It would take extradordinary leadership to make a clean break from the past and to chart a new course for the BJP, leadership that is nowhere on the horizon.

The defining faultlines of future electoral politics are decisively drifting towards socio-economic issues. Unless the Center Right stitches new coalitions around socio-economic interests to challenge the Congress’ maai-baap politics we are in for a Congress monopoly for at least the next two election cycles.

Filed under: Assembly Polls 2009, DesiPundit, India Elections 2009, Live Events, Maharashtra Polls 2009, Offstumped Community, Shveta Chhatra

India Elections 2009 – Congress humbles BJP

If there is one trend that has been consistent since the 2004 Lok Sabha elections in state election after state election, the voters of India have demonstrated tremendous sagacity in delivering verdicts enabling stable governments.

The big question in 2009 was will the Indian Voter at the pan-India level make a sagacious choice towards a stable government.

The answer is out with an emphatic yes.

The voters have rejected opportunistic pressure groups while voting positively for the national party of their choice by an large across India.

It may have come as a personal disappointment to this blogger that the choice they made was in favor of the Congress but there in lies many a lesson that needs to be paid attention to.

But before doing so it would be dishonest if this blogger did not personally compliment Mr. Rahul Gandhi for having made a difference to his party’s revival in the Uttar Pradesh and a job well done.

The nation has made a decisive turn Left of Center on socio-economic issues, the prospect of a Manmohan Singh unencumbered by an arrogant Left notwithstanding.

There are many lessons for the BJP here.

1. Nation is Center Left on socio economic issues and entitlements Nehru Gandhis credibility on entitlements is BJP’s biggest challenge next 5 yrs in states where it does not have strong regional leaders
 
2. BJP’s maxing out in its strongholds is second biggest challenge for unless it breaks dramatic new ground, attrition in next cycle in strongholds will further hurt
 
3. Strategy for BJP next 5 years has to be to go local in Andhra, Kerala, TN, WB to occupy the space of political opposition, UP seems distant given current 4th place status
 
4. Riots have consequences we can no longer be in denial on VHP’s conduct. There has to be accountability for the rot in Orissa.
 
5. If Uttar Pradesh can still gift 20 each seats to BSP, SP and Congress it points to how uninspiring the BJP’s UP Leadership is. It is time for state leadership overhaul, and the need of the hour is for an Obama like inspiring leadership with no baggage and lots of credibility to counter Rahul Gandhi who will loom large on Uttar Pradesh.
 
6. Unless BJP breaks ground at the pan India level the central government could be lost to it for another generation there in lies the biggest risk in not focusing on a Pan India strategy with an emphasis on going local in new states
 
7. Sooner the BJP adopts inner party democracy of the variety Rahul Gandhi is experimenting with to bring new support base especially in states where it needs to break ground.

8. Friends of BJP is a good start to engage the Cosmopolitan Urban voterthis should have started immideately after 2004 debacle it is many years late.

9. At the national level the BJP needs decisive central leadership that can act on all this with a sense of mission and vision. The BJP must not make the same mistake of choosing a stop gap compromise leader to postpone tough decisions.

10. Last but not the least, it would be in complete denial if it did not ask tough questions of how Acts of Adharma in the name of Hindutva have been condoned and the relevance of Hindutva as an ideology to guide on Socio-Economic issues.

At the time of going to press it appears that the RSS and the BJP have gotten into a diagnostic mode, this blogger hopes they pay attention to these feedback points.

In the days to come Offstumped shall put its partisanship on trial and seek feedback on the role Offstumped must play in the days to come.

A big thanks to everyone for joining this journey.

Filed under: India Elections 2009, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009

India Elections 2009 – Congress humbles BJP

If there is one trend that has been consistent since the 2004 Lok Sabha elections in state election after state election, the voters of India have demonstrated tremendous sagacity in delivering verdicts enabling stable governments.

The big question in 2009 was will the Indian Voter at the pan-India level make a sagacious choice towards a stable government.

The answer is out with an emphatic yes.

The voters have rejected opportunistic pressure groups while voting positively for the national party of their choice by an large across India.

It may have come as a personal disappointment to this blogger that the choice they made was in favor of the Congress but there in lies many a lesson that needs to be paid attention to.

But before doing so it would be dishonest if this blogger did not personally compliment Mr. Rahul Gandhi for having made a difference to his party’s revival in the Uttar Pradesh and a job well done.

The nation has made a decisive turn Left of Center on socio-economic issues, the prospect of a Manmohan Singh unencumbered by an arrogant Left notwithstanding.

There are many lessons for the BJP here.

1. Nation is Center Left on socio economic issues and entitlements Nehru Gandhis credibility on entitlements is BJP’s biggest challenge next 5 yrs in states where it does not have strong regional leaders
 
2. BJP’s maxing out in its strongholds is second biggest challenge for unless it breaks dramatic new ground, attrition in next cycle in strongholds will further hurt
 
3. Strategy for BJP next 5 years has to be to go local in Andhra, Kerala, TN, WB to occupy the space of political opposition, UP seems distant given current 4th place status
 
4. Riots have consequences we can no longer be in denial on VHP’s conduct. There has to be accountability for the rot in Orissa.
 
5. If Uttar Pradesh can still gift 20 each seats to BSP, SP and Congress it points to how uninspiring the BJP’s UP Leadership is. It is time for state leadership overhaul, and the need of the hour is for an Obama like inspiring leadership with no baggage and lots of credibility to counter Rahul Gandhi who will loom large on Uttar Pradesh.
 
6. Unless BJP breaks ground at the pan India level the central government could be lost to it for another generation there in lies the biggest risk in not focusing on a Pan India strategy with an emphasis on going local in new states
 
7. Sooner the BJP adopts inner party democracy of the variety Rahul Gandhi is experimenting with to bring new support base especially in states where it needs to break ground.

8. Friends of BJP is a good start to engage the Cosmopolitan Urban voterthis should have started immideately after 2004 debacle it is many years late.

9. At the national level the BJP needs decisive central leadership that can act on all this with a sense of mission and vision. The BJP must not make the same mistake of choosing a stop gap compromise leader to postpone tough decisions.

10. Last but not the least, it would be in complete denial if it did not ask tough questions of how Acts of Adharma in the name of Hindutva have been condoned and the relevance of Hindutva as an ideology to guide on Socio-Economic issues.

At the time of going to press it appears that the RSS and the BJP have gotten into a diagnostic mode, this blogger hopes they pay attention to these feedback points.

In the days to come Offstumped shall put its partisanship on trial and seek feedback on the role Offstumped must play in the days to come.

A big thanks to everyone for joining this journey.

Filed under: DesiPundit, India Elections 2009, India Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009

India Elections 2009 Results – Live Blogging

With the votes set to be counted for the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, here is what Offstumped is looking forward to today.

#1 Will the BJP overtake the Congress as the single largest party and if so by what margin ?

#2 Will Andhra turn in a hung assembly and if so how will the power equations be re-writtent by the voters. Specifically can the TDP manage the numbers with TRS and others or does the Congress have an outside chance by roping in Chiranjeevi’s PRP ?

#3 Will Orissa turn out a hung assembly. Specifically can Naveen Patnaik’s BJD manage the numbers with others or will he be compelled to a suicidal embrace of the Congress. Will Orissa become the next Karnataka for the BJP ?

#4 Will Maharashtra continue to deliver a split verdict or has the BJP-Shiv Sena combine turned the corner in this key large state ?

#5 Will Tamil Nadu’s unusually high turnout mean a AIADMK sweep or will it be a split verdict for Tamil Nadu’s revolving door politics ?

Specific bellwhether seats of interest are

#1 Mandi in Himachal Pradesh which has voted for the party that has formed the government last 6 elections. A BJP loss here would be ominous

#2 Will Dumka in Jharkhand vote against JMM/Congress/RJD

#3 Will Mayurbhanj in Orissa vote against BJP ?

#4 Will Nandyal in Andhra vote against Congress ?

#5 Will Mahabubnagar in Andhra surprise the TRS by dumping KCR ?

#6 Will Peddapalle in Andhra vote against the Congress ?

#7 Will the BJP sweep Rajmahal, Godda, Jamshedpur and Giridih in Jharkhand ?

#8 Which of these 3 Gujarat bellwhether seats will BJP wrest or retain – Anand, Bulsar, Banaskantha ?

#9 Which way will Kangra in Himachal Pradesh go ?

#10 What about bellwhether seats in Chattisgarh (Mahasamund), Maharashtra (Ahmednagar), Punjab (Jalandher), Rajasthan (Sikar), West Bengal (Dum-dum)

#11 How many of the bellwhether seats in Orissa of Aska, Phulbani, Bolangir, Sambalpur, Deogarh, Sundargarh will go to BJP ?

#12 Finally will any of the 4 bellwhether seats of Tamil Nadu Vellore, Chidambaram, Coimbatore, Nagappatnam fall to the AIADMK lead alliance ?

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PS: As this goes to press, a short email exchange with reliable quarters in the BJP reveals fairly high confidence, fingers crossed.

Filed under: CNN-IBN Boycott, Chattisgarh Polls 2008, Chhattisgarh Polls 2008, Delhi Polls 2008, DesiPundit, Dharma-debates, Dharmayudh-2009, Gujarat Polls 2007, India Elections 2009, India Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Karnataka Polls 2008, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009, Madhya Pradesh Polls 2008, Madhya Pradesh Polls 2008, Manmohan Confidence Vote, Offstumped, Offstumped on Twitter, Pratibha Patil, Rajasthan Polls 2008, War on Terror, betrayal of aam admi, jeetega-bharat

India Elections 2009 – Morality of Elections

With another 24 hours to go before we learn the mind of the Indian voter, we are once agained regaled with endless speculation on how the Congress has many paths to power and how the BJP has few options.

Looking beyond the many possible deals that can be struck between the ADMK, BSP, SP, TDP, BJD and the rest of the alphabet soup, it is important to not lose sight of the morality of this election.

In 2005 the voters of Bihar expressed their disgust at the 15 year corrup rule of the Lalu Yadav lead RJD with the support of the Congress. In a blatant repudiation of the voter’s sentiment the Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP attempted to drive a hard bargain with the RJD with the Congress appointed Governor Buta Singh lending a helping hand.

The LJP, Congress and the RJD had to eventually pay a high price for violating the morality of the Feb 2005 election with the BJP-JD(U) under Nitish Kumar sweeping the October 2005 election.

In 2004 Karnataka voted to punish the S.M. Krishna lead Congress government by favoring the BJP as the single largest party. In a blatant repudiation of the sentiment of the Karnataka voter, the Congress made common cause with the JD-S to form a government by seeking moral sanction under a dubious secularism. Two years later the JD-S parted ways with the Congress to form a government with the BJP before betraying within 12 months.

With its morality violated twice Karnataka voted the BJP to power in 2008 with vengeance that saw both the Congress and to a larger degree JD-S pay a heavy price for their myopic opportunism.

Jharkhand, Goa and Assam have had their morality violated over the last 3 years despite voting to punish non-performing governments.

With all the exit polls pointing to a NDA sweep in Jharkhand it is but a matter of time before the myopic opportunism that gets passed of as “upholding secularism” is repudiated once again by an angry electorate that will brook no more  violations of the morality of their electoral preferences.

With 24 hours to go we are once again witnessing this myopic opportunism practised by the Congress, Communists and others of its ilk rearing its head under the guise of keeping out the BJP at all costs.

This myopic opportunism is being actively fanned by a complicit Delhi based media which continues to conduct itself in a moral vaccum.

So morally bankrupt are these media spinmeisters that they see no immorality in suggesting that an AIADMK even if it sweeps Tamil Nadu on anti-UPA plank should embrace the Congress just because it suits their political bias.

Let us set aside the realpolitik for a moment to reflect on what this means. Tamil Nadu has had its all time high turnout in a Lok Sabha elections. Tamil voters across the state have showed up to vote incensed over what they percieve as a betrayal of Tamil interests by the DMK and the Congress.

By suggesting that the AIADMK, if it indeed it were to be the beneficiary of this punishment by the voters, should just embrace the party against who the Tamil voter in all likelihood has expressed anger and disgust, the media stands guity of the same violations of the morality of elections that we had witnessed in Bihar, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Goa and Assam.

Not only is this myopic opportunism immoral it is also a slap on the face of Indian Democracy for it negates the very purpose of elections. Why hold elections if parties were to violate the morality of those elections to strike opportunistic alliances that are a complete repudiation of the voter’s sentiment.

Let it be very clear to the Congress Party and the rest of the 3rd front campers that any attempts by them to stitch a coalition premised on negativity would come with a heavy political price.

Unless the Congress emerges as the single largest party in this election it would have lost its moral authority to form the next government.  The Congress must desist from attempting to form a government if the BJP emerges as the single largest party. Any attempts by the Congress to stitch a minority government or to prop up a 3rd party government with the sole purpose of keeping the BJP out even if it emerges as the single largest party would be a rank violation of the morality of the election.

Filed under: Dharmayudh-2009, India Elections 2009, India Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009, jeetega-bharat

Morality of Elections

With another 24 hours to go before we learn the mind of the Indian voter, we are once agained regaled with endless speculation on how the Congress has many paths to power and how the BJP has few options.

Looking beyond the many possible deals that can be struck between the ADMK, BSP, SP, TDP, BJD and the rest of the alphabet soup, it is important to not lose sight of the morality of this election.

In 2005 the voters of Bihar expressed their disgust at the 15 year corrup rule of the Lalu Yadav lead RJD with the support of the Congress. In a blatant repudiation of the voter’s sentiment the Ram Vilas Paswan’s LJP attempted to drive a hard bargain with the RJD with the Congress appointed Governor Buta Singh lending a helping hand.

The LJP, Congress and the RJD had to eventually pay a high price for violating the morality of the Feb 2005 election with the BJP-JD(U) under Nitish Kumar sweeping the October 2005 election.

In 2004 Karnataka voted to punish the S.M. Krishna lead Congress government by favoring the BJP as the single largest party. In a blatant repudiation of the sentiment of the Karnataka voter, the Congress made common cause with the JD-S to form a government by seeking moral sanction under a dubious secularism. Two years later the JD-S parted ways with the Congress to form a government with the BJP before betraying within 12 months.

With its morality violated twice Karnataka voted the BJP to power in 2008 with vengeance that saw both the Congress and to a larger degree JD-S pay a heavy price for their myopic opportunism.

Jharkhand, Goa and Assam have had their morality violated over the last 3 years despite voting to punish non-performing governments.

With all the exit polls pointing to a NDA sweep in Jharkhand it is but a matter of time before the myopic opportunism that gets passed of as “upholding secularism” is repudiated once again by an angry electorate that will brook no more  violations of the morality of their electoral preferences.

With 24 hours to go we are once again witnessing this myopic opportunism practised by the Congress, Communists and others of its ilk rearing its head under the guise of keeping out the BJP at all costs.

This myopic opportunism is being actively fanned by a complicit Delhi based media which continues to conduct itself in a moral vaccum.

So morally bankrupt are these media spinmeisters that they see no immorality in suggesting that an AIADMK even if it sweeps Tamil Nadu on anti-UPA plank should embrace the Congress just because it suits their political bias.

Let us set aside the realpolitik for a moment to reflect on what this means. Tamil Nadu has had its all time high turnout in a Lok Sabha elections. Tamil voters across the state have showed up to vote incensed over what they percieve as a betrayal of Tamil interests by the DMK and the Congress.

By suggesting that the AIADMK, if it indeed it were to be the beneficiary of this punishment by the voters, should just embrace the party against who the Tamil voter in all likelihood has expressed anger and disgust, the media stands guity of the same violations of the morality of elections that we had witnessed in Bihar, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Goa and Assam.

Not only is this myopic opportunism immoral it is also a slap on the face of Indian Democracy for it negates the very purpose of elections. Why hold elections if parties were to violate the morality of those elections to strike opportunistic alliances that are a complete repudiation of the voter’s sentiment.

Let it be very clear to the Congress Party and the rest of the 3rd front campers that any attempts by them to stitch a coalition premised on negativity would come with a heavy political price.

Unless the Congress emerges as the single largest party in this election it would have lost its moral authority to form the next government.  The Congress must desist from attempting to form a government if the BJP emerges as the single largest party. Any attempts by the Congress to stitch a minority government or to prop up a 3rd party government with the sole purpose of keeping the BJP out even if it emerges as the single largest party would be a rank violation of the morality of the election.

Filed under: Chattisgarh Polls 2008, Delhi Polls 2008, DesiPundit, Dharmayudh-2009, Gujarat Polls 2007, India Elections 2009, Karnataka Polls 2008, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009, Madhya Pradesh Polls 2008, Manmohan Confidence Vote, Rajasthan Polls 2008, betrayal of aam admi, jeetega-bharat

India Elections 2009 Live Results – A Crowd Sourcing Initiative

So after a month long elections and all of us arguing which state will go which way, we are planning to use a new tool coveritlive and start the live telecast of results, we request every one to contribute and participate.

We have already got the setup done and we have around 5 panelists who are going to update the reults in live time starting from 6.oo AM IST on results day and hope to carry it on till we get the results of the last seat.

Click Here  to set your reminder and login to the screen. if anyone want to participate please drop in an email to centerofrightcv@gmail.com for invitation as a panelist

We have folks from promise of reason led by chakreshm and our very own Offstumped, NR, myself who have already signed up as panel members.

Let us try this out . Please click on the link and you can set your reminders on the same. Another 60 hrs to go.

Filed under: DesiPundit, Dharmayudh-2009, India Elections 2009, India Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009, jeetega-bharat

India Elections 2009 – Countdown to Exit Polls

Its the era where “news” is not “news” enough anymore but “prognostication on what news might be” 3 days from now is more interesting “news”.

So here is to counting down in anticipation of the exit polls.

With exit polls having acquired a notorious reputation over the many election cycles since 2004, how must we interpret the exit polls that will be released later today ?

The key is to glean if there is a trend that all the exit polls agree on for a given State.

If one looks back at the exit polls over the last 4 years they have rarely been accurate on final numbers but most did point to a dominant trend but were muted on how accentuated the trend was.

So in 2004 you had exit polls detected the dominant trend of NDA losing ground but being muted in their estimate of the magnitude of loss.

Similarly in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls the exit polls polls detected the dominant trend of Mayawati’s BSP smelling power but were muted in their estimate of whether the BSP would cross the half-way mark.

We saw the same thing in the Gujarat exit polls that saw the dominant trend of Narendra Modi coming back but were muted in how badly the Congress would perform.

In Karnataka as well the exit polls were right on the trend of BJP being at the top of the triad but were muted in how close it would get to a majority of its own.

To extrapolate exit polls to the final outcome on May 16th one should first look for dominant trends on a State by State basis that all the exit polls agree on.

We must then extrapolate that dominant trend to what it could mean in seats with some reality check on how accentuated or muted the trend was before adding up those extrapolations to arrive at the national figures.

The challenge like in 2004 will be the effects of the Zero Sum Game, where dramatic trends in opposite directions across 2 states cancel each other out between the Congress and BJP.  This could make the sum total of extrapolations suspect for there could be small pickings in each state that could add up to a significant margin for a party like the Congress which is in fray in more States than for a party like the BJP that is in fray in lesser States.

Key state wise trends that we must look for

- Are gains by the PRP in Andhra coming at the expense of losses for the Congress ?

- Is the Congress suffering more losses than NCP in Maharashtra ?

- Is the JD-S vote share shrinking dramatically in Karnataka ?

- Degree of losses for Left in Kerala and West Bengal

- Differential between AIDMK and DMK in Tamil Nadu

- Degree to which SP is holding ground in Uttar Pradesh

- Degree to which BJP is holding ground in Orissa

End of the day

- the Congress’ best chances lie in poor performance by the Left in Kerala and West Bengal coupled with gains in Orissa and other NDA ruled states to offset expected losses in Andhra and Maharashtra.

- the BJP’s best chances lie in holding ground and limiting losses in NDA ruled states making significant gains in Maharashtra, Bihar and Jharkhand while getting lucky in Uttar Pradesh

The race is still very much about being the single largest party for the post poll game of bluff could end up in a stalemate between the Left and Congress prompting Pratibha Patil to not go by who has the numbers for 272 but by who is single largest.

Filed under: DesiPundit, Dharmayudh-2009, India Elections 2009, India Lok Sabha Elections 2009, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009

Open Letter to Sudheendra Kulkarni

Dear Shri Kulkarni

We have exchanged many notes in private but I wanted to make this one public on your latest op-ed in the Indian Express titled “From tutu-mainmain to Tu and Main“.

You have rightly framed the issue on the abject lack of bi-partisanship and lack of respect for the opposite point of view in our national political culture to the point where every political exchange has to be necessarily colored with extreme adjectives like “tears into”, “ridicules”, “snubs”, “mocks” and so on.

While one need not delve into history on this subject, the responsibility over the last 5 years for this clearly rests with the Congress Party for not having gone the extra creative mile to create a national consensus on issues like the Indo-US Nuclear Deal.

Be that as it may the 2009 elections mark a significant turn in this culture of political debate when a senior most aide to the most important political leader to one side of the political divide is able to seek the middle ground on issues of national interest in the middle of a bitter political campaign.

Some in the media may color this election season as highly personal and vicious and most in the media may attribute it to the characterization of Dr. Manmohan Singh’s conduct in office.

However this blogger being privy to facts that they are not can say without doubt that Mr. Advani’s Campaign has conducted itself in the most honorable and dignified manner while chosing not to hit below the belt even when opportunities have presented themselves even after one of the worst scandals on the floor of Parliament.

At this time it is anyone’s guess what the ballots will reveal on May 16th but this blogger hopes that no matter what the outcome is on May 16th a beginning can be made on bi-partisanship in New Delhi. You have made the first move and this blogger hopes the Congress reciprocates appropriately over time.

Wishing you all the best and congratulations on a campaign executed honorably with dignity.

regards

An Aam Admi

Filed under: Chattisgarh Polls 2008, Chhattisgarh Polls 2008, Delhi Polls 2008, Dharmayudh-2009, Gujarat Polls 2007, India Elections 2009, Karnataka Polls 2008, Lok Sabha Polls 2008-2009, Madhya Pradesh Polls 2008, Rajasthan Polls 2008, betrayal of aam admi, jeetega-bharat